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ASIA SUBMARINE-CABLE EXPRESS (ASE)

The Asia Submarine-cable Express cable system is a high capacity cable system constructed in the Asia Pacific Region designed to cater the exponential growth in bandwidth requirements for new and revolutionary broadband applications such as IP, video, data, and other multimedia services.

The ASE Project was collaborated by the region’s leading telecommunications carriers: NTTCom, PLDT, STARHUB and Telekom Malaysia. The 8,148 -kilometer ASE system links mainland Japan with extension to the Okinawan Islands, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. The system is designed to potentially to connect to Mainland China, as well as other Southeast Asian countries. The system is envisioned to provide seamless interconnection with other major cable systems connecting Europe, the Middle East, other parts of Asia, and the United States.

ASE is designed to have a maximum design capacity of 51 Terabits using field proven 100 Gigabits per second transmission technology and has the capability to incorporate greater than 100Gbps optical technology in the future. The ASE will be specially designed to withstand earthquakes and typhoons, particularly in areas such as the Bashi Channel south of Taiwan, where undersea earthquakes have disrupted international communications in the past few years. Routes between Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore will cover the shortest possible distances to ensure maximum reliability and minimum latency.