The Asia-America Gateway (AAG) is a 20000 kilometres (12,427.5 mi) long submarine communications cable system

Submarine communications cable

A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean....

, connecting South-East Asia with the USA mainland, across the Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

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 via Guam

Guam

Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United...

 and Hawaii

Hawaii

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The cable is capable of delivering up to 2.88 Tbit/s (US-Hawaii & Hong Kong-South East Asia) and 1.92 Tbit/s (Hawaii-Hong Kong), and its full bandwidth is expected to come online in most of the SE Asian region early in the 2010 new year.

Development of the AAG cable system was funded, at a cost of $500 million USD, by 19 partners: AiTi

Aiti

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 of Brunei Darussalam, AT&T

AT&T

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 (USA), BayanTel (Philippines), Bharti

Bharti Enterprises

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 (India), British Telecom Global Network Services

BT Group

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 (UK), CAT Telecom

CAT Telecom

CAT Telecom Public Company Limited is the state-owned company that runs Thailand’s international telecommunications infrastructure, including its international gateways, satellite, and submarine cable networks connections. As of February 2008, it had 5,562 employees.-Services:Until recently, CAT...

 (Thailand), Telkom Indonesia (Indonesia), ETPI (Philippines), Telcotech (Cambodia), PLDT (Philippines), Saigon Postal Corporation (Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

), StarHub

StarHub

StarHub Limited is a full-fledged telecommunications company providing a full range of services over mobile, internet and fixed platforms in Singapore...

 (Singapore), Telekom Malaysia

Telekom Malaysia

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, Telstra

Telstra

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 (Australia), Telecom New Zealand

Telecom New Zealand

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, Viettel

Viettel

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 (Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

), and the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group

Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group

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The cable has landing point

Cable landing point

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s at the USA, Hawaii, Guam, Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei and Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

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