Globe's Palawan-Coron fiber optic system paves way for West PHL net superhighway

As part of its US$700 million modernization, Globe Telecom Inc. has landed a 400-kilometer submarine fiber optic cable in Palawan, the first fiber optic backbone linking the province to the rest of the country and the world.

 

The fiber optic backbone will serve as a “superhighway”of telecommunications services between Puerto Princesa City to Luzon, the rest of the country and the world via San Jose, Mindoro and support growing tourism and business in Western Philippines.

 

The telecom superhighway will be equipped with ultra-long haul dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) transmitting 40 wavelengths at 40-gigabits per second (GBPS) capacity per fiber pair, scalable to 100 GBPS per fiber pair.

 

This translates to 19.2 Terabits per second of capacity, which will provide more than enough bandwidth to serve transmission requirements to enable evolved high speed packet access (HSPA+) and long term evolution or LTE in the area.

 

It is capable of providing the required bandwidth for subscribers to have high-speed internet surfing, seamless video streaming, fast uploads of photos and videos to social media sites and a more reliable network for text and voice calls.

 

The cable rollout now forms part of the fiber optic footprint of the company, currently at 27,000 kilometers spanning the archipelago — from Aparri to the Zamboanga region — and will extend further as modernization progresses.

 

This landing was simultaneously rolled out with the Southeast Asia-Japan international submarine cable system in Nasugbu, Batangas, intensifying the fiber optic footprint of Globe in Southern Luzon and the MIMAROPA region.

 

In late November 2012, a similar fiber cable facility was installed in Boracay which interconnected the island hotspot with the rest of the archipelago, forming a major part of the company’s fibering of the Philippines.

 

Following the Coron FOC landing in May will be El Nido before yearend, providing triple fiber strength to the island.

 

Globe Chief Network Architect Emmanuel Estrada stressed  the fiber optic inter-island connectivity will bring about richer mobile experience for residents and bring more business activities. – KDM, GMA News