G-P

Pacific submarine communications cable

G-P
Landing points
  • Batangas Bay, the Philippines
  • Tanguisson Point, Tumon Village, Guam
Total length3,600 km (2,200 mi)
Design capacity20 Gbit/s
Date of first use31 March 1999; 25 years ago (1999-03-31)

G-P (or Guam-Philippines Fiber Optic Submarine Cable System) is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the North Pacific Ocean linking the two named territories.

It has landing points in:[1]

  • Batangas Bay, Batangas City, Batangas Province, the Philippines
  • Tanguisson Point, Tumon Village, Guam

It has a design transmission capacity of 20 Gbit/s, starting operation at 5 Gbit/s and a total cable length of 3,600 km (2,200 mi). It started operation on 31 March 1999.

Sources

  • "Application for a license to land and operate in the United States a private fiber optic cable system extending between Guam and the Philippines, the G-P Cable System". fcc.gov. 15 December 1998. Retrieved 17 February 2006.

References

  1. ^ G-P Greg's cable map


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