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The Taiwan-Philippines-US (TPU) cable system is a trans-pacific fiber-optic submarine cable system connecting the United States with Taiwan and the Philippines, with a cable length of approximately 13470 kilometers.
The TPU cable system is privately owned by Google through its various subsidiaries:
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The TPU cable system features 16 fiber pairs on its trans-pacific trunk and 20 fiber pairs on its branches to Taiwan and the Philippine, with an initial design capacity of approximately 13 Tbps per fiber pair, for a total system capacity of up to 260 Tbps.
The TPU cable system is supplied by NEC, using optical fiber switching technology in the branching units, also demonstrating the first commercial use of multi-core fiber in a subsea cable system. The multi-core fiber techonology is deployed only on its branches to Taiwan and the Philippine.
The TPU cable system is expected to be ready for service in 2026.
In April 2024, Google announced to extend the TPU cable system with a branching unit connecting the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States consisting of 14 islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Google also announced to build the Proa subsea cable connecting the CNMI, Guam and Japan.