APCN 2 (cable system)

APCN 2 or Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 is a submarine telecommunications cable linking several countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
It has landing points in:

Chongming, Shanghai, China
Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
Lantau Island, Islands District, Hong Kong
Chikura, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Tamsui, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Kuantan, Pahang State, Malaysia
Batangas Bay, Batangas City, Batangas Province, Philippines
Katong, Singapore
Pusan, South Korea

Performance
Total bandwidth capacity of Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 is 2.56 Tbit/s, made up of four pairs of optical fibres, each pair providing 640 Gbit/s by Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing of 10 Gbit/s wavelengths. The 19,000 km-long APCN 2 cable system is built in a self-healing ring configuration, which allows fast rerouting of data transfers along APCN...