C2C Cable System Overview

The City-to-City (C2C) Cable System is a 17,000 km private Intra-Asia submarine cable system. The C2C cable system is designed with a dual-ring ("8") configuration, i.e., the northern ring linking Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Philippines, and the southern ring linking Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore. The C2C cables consist of 8 fiber pairs, initially designed with 96x10Gbps DWDM over each fiber pair.

Pacnet took over the control of C2C in 2007, and merged the C2C network with the EAC network to form a combined EAC-C2C network,the combined EAC-C2C has a design capacity of 17.92 Tbps to 30.72 Tbps. 

Cable System:

• City-to-City Cable System, or C2C

Cable Length:

• 17,000 Km

Design Capacity:

• 7.68 Tbps
• 8 fiber pairs, each of 96x10 Gbps DWDM

Lit Capacity:

• 160 Gbps (initial lit capacity as of RFS in 2001)

Ready for Service Date:

• December 5, 2001 (northern loop)
• January 28, 2002 (southern loop and entire system)

Investment Type:

• Private

Owner(s):

• initially constructed and owned by C2C Pte Ltd (a private cable company established by SingTel (59%), TyCo (15%) and other investors)
• currently, Pacnet (former Asia Netcom, Asia Netcom merged EAC and C2C networks in 2007 )

Initial Investment:

• US$ 2.1 billion

Landing Stations:

• Chikura, Japan, KDDI
• Shima, Japan, KDDI
• Pusan, Korea, Korea Telecom
• Nanhui, China, China Unicom (formerly China Netcom)
• Tanshui, Taiwan, NCIC (Far EasTone)
• Fangshan, Taiwan, NCIC
• Chung Hom Kok, Hong Kong, Pacnet
• Nasugbu, the Philippines, Globe Telecom
• Changi, Singapore, SingTel

Vendors:

• KDD-SCS
• Tyco Submarine Systems Ltd (TSSL)

C2C Submarine Cable Map: