The Southeast Asia – US (SEA-US) Cable System has announced that the Hermosa Beach, California shore-end was successfully connected. On 12 January, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted the SEA-US cable landing license. By end-January, the deployment of California’s cable landing station will be completed. In February the installation vessel is expected to arrive in Honolulu, Hawaii, after completing its main-lay construction between California and Hawaii.
The SEA-US consortium members selected CoreSite, a provider of data center and interconnection services across the US, to house the SEA-US Cable System’s submarine line terminating equipment (SLTE) at CoreSite’s purpose built LA2 data center in Los Angeles. The SEA-US Cable System’s design is expected to provide its users with additional protection between the Hermosa Beach, California landing and CoreSite’s LA2 data center over physically diverse dark fiber pairs.
The USD 250 million SEA-US Cable System is being constructed by NEC. When completed, the system is expected to deliver an initial design capacity of 20 Tbps capacity, using NEC’s 100 Gbps technology.
The SEA-US Cable System consortium members are Globe Telecom (Manila, Philippines), GTA (Tamuning, Guam), GTI (Los Angeles, California), Hawaiian Telcom (Honolulu, Hawaii), RTI (San Francisco, California), Telin (Jakarta, Indonesia) and Telkom USA (Los Angeles, California).
