PLDT completes cable laying of Apricot system's branches in Aurora and Davao

The cable runs from Singapore to Japan via the Pacific Ocean.

Courtesy: PLDT

Improving connectivity in the country

PLDT Inc. (PLDT) has completed the cable laying for the branches of the Apricot cable system in Baler in Aurora and Digos in Davao. These are the two landing points of the 12,000-kilometer-long cable system in the Philippines.

Apricot is a direct cable from Singapore to Japan via the Pacific Ocean, with branches to the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Guam, making it suited as an Intra-Asia Hub point for OTTs, and complements with other intra-Asia and transpacific submarine systems.

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The cable system is expected to increase PLDT's International Capacity by as much as 33 percent, totaling more than 140Tbps. It is also seen to address the increasing telecommunications traffic capacity demands in the Asia Pacific region, with a system design capacity of more than 211Tbps.

International submarine cable systems are vital network infrastructure that are essential in supporting the exponential growth of data traffic brought about by the increasingly digital lifestyles of Filipinos, said Butch Jimenez, chief operating officer at PLDT.

Aside from international data traffic support, Jimenes said the Apricot cable system's route also provides resiliency to PLDT's domestic network between Luzon and Mindanao.

PLDT said it continues to invest in its fixed and wireless networks, ICT, data centers, and submarine cables, to drive revenue growth and support the continuing rise in network traffic.

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Source: PLDT