APCN or Asia-Pacific Cable Network is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking nine Asian countries. A submarine communications cable is a cable laid beneath the sea to carry telecommunications between countries. ...

It has landing points in: A Cable landing point is the location where a submarine or other underwater cable makes landfall. ...

• Petchaburi, Thailand
• Mersing, Malaysia
• Changi, Singapore
• Ancol, Indonesia
• Lantau, Hong Kong
• Batangas, Philippines
• Toucheng, Taiwan
• Pusan, Korea
• Miyazaki, Japan

It has a tranmission capacity of 5 Gbit/s, and a total cable length of approximately 12,000 km. It started operation on ?. Mersing is the name of a town and district in the northeast corner of the state of Johor, Malaysia. ... Changi is an area to the east of Singapore. ... Lantau Island (based on its old name 爛頭島 lan tau do, lit. ... Batangas is a province of the Philippines located on the southwestern part of Luzon in the CALABARZON region. ... Toucheng (頭城) is an urban township in the northern part of Yilan County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. ... Pūsan is also a Vedic Hindu god. ... Korea (Hangul: 한국, Hanja: 韓國, McCune-Reischauer: Hanguk, Revised: Hanguk, or ChosŏngÅ­l : ì¡°ì„ , Hanja: 朝鮮, McCune-Reischauer: Chosŏn, Revised: Joseon) is a civilization and geographical area situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia, bordering China (PRC) to the northwest and Russia to the northeast, with Japan situated to the... Miyazaki can be: Miyazaki prefecture Miyazaki city of Miyazaki prefecture Name of famous Japanese animator and filmmaker, Hayao Miyazaki Takiri Miyazaki, an athlete Tsutomu Miyazaki, a serial killer and otaku A common Japanese family name. ...

Sources

• "http://www.apricot.net/apricot97/apII/Presentations/KDDSubmarineFiber/sld018.htm." URL accessed on February 11, 2006.
• "http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0103/0801-02.html." URL accessed on February 11, 2006.