EAC Cable System Overview

The East Asia Crossing (EAC) cable system is a 19,800 km private Intra-Asia submarine cable system. The EAC cable system is deployed with multiple-ring configuration linking Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore. The EAC cable system consists of 4 fiber pairs, initially designed with 64x10Gbps 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:

• East Asia Crossing, or EAC

Cable Length:

• 19,800 Km
• 11,600 km for the EAC Phase 1 linking Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Philippines
• 7,900 km for the EAC Phase 2 linking Hong Kong, Philippine and Singapore
• 300 km for EAC Qingdao Extension

Design Capacity:

• 2.56 Tbps
• 4 fiber pairs, each of 64x10 Gbps DWDM

Lit Capacity:

• 160 Gbps (initial lit capacity as of RFS in 2002)

Ready for Service Date:

• August 26, 2002 

Investment Type:

• Private

Owner(s):

• initially constructed and owned by Asia Global Crossing 
• Asia Netcom (2002-2006, Asia Netcom was then a wholly owned subsidiary of China Netcom which acquired the EAC network and AGC in 2002)
• currently Pacnet

Initial Investment:

• US$ 1.3 billion

Landing Stations:

• Ajigaura, Japan, Pacnet
• Shima, Japan, KDDI
• Taean, Korea, Dacom Crossing/Pcnet
• Qingdao, China, China Unicom (formerly China Netcom)
• Pali, Taiwan, NCIC /Pacnet
• Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, Pacnet
• Capepisa, the Philippines, Pacnet
• Changi, Singapore, SingTel

Vendors:

• KDD-SCS (EAC Phase 1)
• NEC (EAC Phase 2 and EAC Qingdao Extension)

EAC Submarine Cable Map: