PLDT Completes Cable Laying for APRICOT's Branches to Baler and Davao

PLDT announced that the company has successfully completed the cable laying for the branches of the Apricot cable system to Baler in Aurora and Digos in Davao.

Seen to augment PLDT's international capacity for data traffic, the 12,000-kilometer-long Apricot cable system will be a state-of-the-art, high-capacity fiber-optic submarine cable system that will address the increasing telecommunications traffic capacity demands in the Asia Pacific region, with a system design capacity of more than 211Tbps.

A direct cable from Singapore to Japan via the Pacific Ocean, the Apricot cable system gives telecommunication companies alternate routes that do not traverse the usual West Philippine Sea waters.

The Apricot cable system is reinforced by two landing points in the Philippines at two newly built cable landing stations—one in the North in Baler another in the South in Davao.

The Apricot cable system connects Singapore to Japan with branches to the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Guam, making it suited as an Intra-Asia Hub point for OTTs, and complements with other intra-Asia and transpacific submarine systems.

Apricot will increase PLDT’s International Capacity by as much as 33% totaling to more than 140Tbps, further boosting the diversity and capacity of PLDT’s cable system portfolio.