What’s outstanding about ADC undersea fiber optic cable?

The Military Industry and Telecommunications Group (Viettel) has just announced the ADC (Asia Direct Cable) international undersea cable route to land in Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh. This is the fiber optic cable with the largest bandwidth capacity in Vietnam, 3 times higher than the APG cable (Asia Pacific Gateway).

ADC is the 5th undersea cable route, with the largest investment scale so far of Viettel, on the basis of investment and construction cooperation with major international telecommunications groups in the world such as: Singtel, China Telecom, SoftBank, China Unicom, NT, PLDT, TATA Communications.

The ADC undersea fiber optic cable route has a length of 9,800 km underground cable, a capacity of over 140 Tbps, using technology The most modern transmission line today, helping to connect countries/regions in the Asia-Pacific region with a total initial investment of 290 million USD.

Along with other undersea optical cable routes, Viettel’s ADC is expected to add 18Tbps to Viettel’s total international connection capacity when put into operation, contributing to providing a large amount of high-speed capacity. connecting from Vietnam to international.

Mr. Doan Dai Phong, Deputy General Director of Viettel Enterprise Solutions Corporation (Viettel Solutions) – a member of Viettel Group, said that after completing the landing, the ADC sea cable line will be put into commercial operation by Viettel. trade in 2023.

The ADC cable route is suitable for deploying international Internet connection applications that require high speed such as Internet of Things (IoT), automation, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (AR/VR); at the same time, ensuring safety, network redundancy, and quality assurance of Internet services and other international connection services of Viettel.

ADC connects countries/territories in the Asia-Pacific region such as: Singapore – Japan – Hong Kong – China – Philippines – Vietnam – Thailand.

Up to now, 5 submarine cable projects that Viettel has invested in include: AAE-1 (landing station located in Vung Tau), TGN-IA (landing station located in Vung Tau), APG (landing station located in Vung Tau). Da Nang) and AAG (landing station located in Vung Tau) and ADC (landing station located in Quy Nhon.