In the period of 2016 - 2017, with the purpose of expanding capacity to serve the needs in the following years, Viettel will officially put into operation another two new submarine cables, they are: APG (Asia Pacific Gateway) and AAE1 (Asia - Africa - Europe 1). After completed, Viettel will have five channels to connect to the world including: landlines system, submarine cables such as AAG (Asia America Gateway), IA (Intra Asia), APG and AAE-1 ensuring system redundancy and improving service quality for customers.

APG submarine cable diagram

Stretching approximately 11,000 km, APG cable network is scheduled to be ready for service in Q4/2016. The new cable system will connect Vietnam to major countries in the Pacific Asia and to the U.S as well. APG will employ the 100 Gbps technology with a total designed capacity of 3.5TB. Beside Viettel, there are also 14 other project participants.

AAE-1 submarine cable diagram

AAE-1 cable has a length of 25,000km with the total designed capacity of  4,4Tb using the technology of 100 Gbps/wavelength. AAE-1 connects Vietnam with most major nations in Southeast Asia through the POPs (Points of Presence) located in Hong Kong, Singapore to Europe and to Africa via the Middle East region. This project has 19 members in collaboration, of which Viettel is Vietnam’s only investor and chair of the cable landing station located in Vung Tau. The system is expected to be put into operation in early 2017. When completed, AAE-1 will be one of the first unique, high-capacity cable with low latency that connects to Africa and Middle East. Especially, AAE-1 will be the 2nd cable that connects to Europe after 15 years since SMW3 was first introduced.