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Repairs to submarine cables rescheduled

Repair work on some international undersea cables is unable to be completed as scheduled, and it will take more days for Vietnam’s internet connection with the world to be fully recovered.
Repairs to submarine cables rescheduled ảnh 1Repair work on IA and AAE-1 will be completed later than initially scheduled (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Repair work on some internationalundersea cables is unable to be completed as scheduled, and it will take moredays for Vietnam’s internet connection with the world to be fully recovered.

Branch S2 of Tata TGN-Intra Asia (IA) will bemended until February 9, missing the initial plan of January 29. Meanwhile, thework on branch S1 of this cable already finished on January 31, the IA managingunit announced Vietnam’s internet service providers on February 4.

The repair of the Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1)cable was also rescheduled to take place from February 2 to February 12,instead of February 3. Its capacity is expected to be fully recovered on lateFebruary 12.

The IA cable system, stretching 6,800km,connects Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, Hong Kong (China) and Japan. Withdesigned transmission speeds of 3.84 Tbps, it is an important cabletransferring data from Vietnam and other Asian destinations to America and Europe.

AAE-1, put into use in July 2017, is about23,000km long and has a minimum design capacity of 40 Tbps./.
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