Globe gets Palawan-Coron Submarine Fibre Optic Cable System Underway

The leading telecom provider in the Philippines has landed a 400-kilometre submarine fibre optic cable in the western island province of Palawan, as part of a drive to the heightening tourism and business activities in this region of the Philippines. Globe Telecom's cable is intended to function as a "superhighway" of telecommunications services between Puerto Princesa City to the main Luzon island and the rest of the country and the world via San Jose, Mindoro.

The established interconnectivity will be equipped with ultra-long haul dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM), designed to transmit 40 wavelengths at 40-gigabits per second (GBPS) capacity per fibre pair, scalable to 100 GBPS per fibre pair. This translates to 19.2 Terabits per second of capacity, which will provide more than enough bandwidth to serve transmission requirements to enable evolved high speed packet access (HSPA+) and long term evolution or LTE in the area, capable of providing the required bandwidth for subscribers to have high-speed internet surfing, seamless video streaming, fast uploads of photos and videos to social media sites, and a more reliable network for text and voice calls.

The upgrade will replace existing SDH microwave equipment with fibre optic technology and DWDM system as the main transport backbone of Palawan. The rollout forms part of the fibre optic footprint of the company, currently at 27,000 kilometres spanning the archipelago.

This landing was simultaneously rolled out with the Southeast Asia-Japan international submarine cable system in Nasugbu, Batangas, intensifying the fibre optic footprint of Globe in Southern Luzon and the MIMAROPA region. In late November 2012, a similar fibre cable facility was installed in Boracay which interconnected the island hotspot with the rest of the archipelago. Following the Coron FOC landing in May will be El Nido before year-end, providing triple fibre strength to the island - hailed as the country's final frontier.

Globe Chief Network Architect Emmanuel Estrada said: "The fibre optic cables will ensure that the network in the area is future-proofed, able to serve heavy stream of mobile traffic and on a larger scale, the entire telecommunication services of the area."

source wire world