SoftBank Begins Operating New Asia Pacific Submarine Cable connecting China, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam
System spans approximately 10,000 kilometers, connecting China, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam Tokyo - SoftBank Corp. (“SoftBank”) announced it has finished construction of the Asia Direct Cable (ADC), a high-performance submarine cable connecting China (Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong Province), Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. SoftBank began operating the ADC on December 2024. The ADC submarine cable is owned by the ADC Consortium and features multiple pairs of high-capacity optical fibers. It is designed to carry more than 160 Tbps of traffic, enabling the high-capacity transmission of data across the East and Southeast Asian regions. The new cable represents a significant achievement as the latest Intra-Asia cable connecting China (Hong Kong SAR), Japan and Singapore in the past eight years, providing essential infrastructure to support the burgeoning traffic demand in the region and opening up new avenues for communic...