CAT builds new submarine cable system, APG, supporting super high-speed data capacity as global content businesses are coming to Asia to build business foothold, resulting in constant high traffic. Demand of international bandwidth for Thailand in the next 3 years is expected to increase by 6 times. CAT Internet Gateway is also revealed to be the first in Thailand to be expanding the bandwidth with 100 Gbps. technology to build up confidence for growing customers.
According to Dr. Dhanant Subhadrabandhu, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Sales, at CAT Telecom Public Company Limited, CAT has provided data communication and internet connectivity to overseas destinations through submarine cable systems that ensure faster and more efficient transmission than any other means. Continuous dramatic growth in demand of internet bandwidth, both domestic and international, has been witnessed over the past 5 years. The congestion of internet traffic in Asia is due to the expansion of internet users. Besides, such big content providers as Google, Youtube, Facebook, Microsoft, and Akamai are expanding their business in Asia, including Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. Especially, demand for internet bandwidth among Thailand's neighbouring countries that are forming new economic zones, namely Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia, is growing rapidly. CAT is then urged to develop more internet transmission routes through submarine cable systems which will allow CAT to serve the present and future need of internet consumption. Recently, CAT activated a new submarine cable system of a high standard -- Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) in response to the growing usage of internet and proliferating demand for information communication among countries in Asia with the most efficiency.
The 10,900-kilometre APG system provides direct connectivity routes from Thailand to such Asia-Pacific countries as Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, China Mainland, South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong. The bandwidth can be expanded with transmission speed over 54 Tbps (Terabit per second), which is more than 54 million times of 1 Mbps (Megabit per second) -- the highest capacity of bandwidth ever available in Thailand. APG is, as a result, distinctive for its best capacity to support the density of data communication and internet traffic in Asia-Pacific region efficiently.
Through APG, as an extended submarine cable system route, potentiality for international information connectivity is amplified, adding CAT's submarine cable routes up to total 6 active systems. CAT is consequently the only operator in Thailand to own various submarine cable routes that directly connect Thailand with the most regions in the world and is the most responsive to the need of internet consumption in the age of big data available on various applications. In addition, as an extended route from CAT's formerly-built Asia-America Gateway (AAG), APG will increase Thailand's opportunity to be the ASEAN Digital Hub as well as enhance CAT's potentiality and stability for holistic international communication to build confidence among internet users and content providers that are interested in investment in Thailand as an internet hub for distributing information and content to users in the region in the near future.
"The development of the APG submarine cable system not only prepares CAT for being the ASEAN digital hub but supports the digital economy following 'Thailand 4.0' policy, especially the development of a Smart City where the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) is widely adopted. APG submarine cable system offers sufficient capacity and constant efficiency in high-speed information transmission for big data analysis and IoT connectivity," said Dr. Dhanant.
CAT has also prepared to support larger bandwidth for data communication and internet connectivity in Thailand in the next 3 years, from 3 Tbps. to 15-20 Tbps. -- an approximately 6 times increase. Within next year, CAT Internet Gateway will activate high-speed bandwidth at 100 Gbps. per port to link big content providers across the world with various international submarine cable systems in which CAT has co-invested, including APG, AAG, and SEA-ME-WE 4 (Southeast Asia-Middle East- Western Europe 4). This bandwidth expansion will serve the need of international users and boost stability, making CAT, within 2017, the first organisation in Thailand to offer Nx100 Gbps. connectivity through international submarine cable systems.
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