Subsea Cable Upgrade in Southeast Asia

TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, has announced  that it has signed a contract to perform another network upgrade to the South-East Asia Japan Cable System (SJC) to be completed by the end of November 2015.

The upgrade of the 8,986 km system increases capacity to meet the rising demand for businesses and communications in the Asia-Pacific region.

Originally implemented in 2013 by a global consortium of telecommunications and technology companies, the SJC Cable System links the seven countries or territories of Brunei, mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the Philippines, including the option to connect with Thailand. This marks the third upgrade to the system and increases the capacity by 3.6 Tb/s while utilizing 100 Gb/s coherent transmission.


The SJC consortium is composed of Brunei International Gateway Sendirian Berhad (BIG), China Mobile International Ltd. (CMI), China Telecommunications Corporation (China Telecom), China Telecom Global Limited (CTG), Donghwa Telecom Co. Ltd (DHT) (a subsidiary of Chunghwa Telecom, Co., Ltd.), Globe Telecom, Inc., Google, KDDI Corporation, Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia International (Telin a subsidiary of PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Tbk), and TOT Public Co., Ltd. (TOT).