MANILA, Philippines,
June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
PLDT reinforces its lead among local carriers with the most
number of Philippine-terminating cables as it activates
the US-Transpacific Jupiter cable system by July this year,
and is expected to further enhance delivery of services and
improve customer experience.
The addition of the Jupiter cable system to PLDT's
infrastructure greatly boosts the telco's extensive
fiber network, providing greater capacity in multiple Terabits
per second to customers as well as cable diversity to ensure
ability to re-route traffic in the event of undersea cable
cuts.
"Investments on infrastructure like Jupiter allow PLDT to
provide the vital connectivity that powers our digital economy,
enabling us to help transform the country into a globally
competitive and digitally-empowered nation," PLDT and Smart FVP and
Head of Enterprise Business Group Jojo G. Gendrano said.
"Specifically, this will fortify the
Philippines' position as the next strategic data center hub
for global hyperscalers," Gendrano added.
PLDT's investment in the Jupiter cable system increases and
reinforces the capacities and the resiliency of the telco leader's
existing undersea fiber links, to deliver massive amounts
of data traffic going in and out of the country to the US.
Jupiter uses an "open cable model," which allows consortium
members to increase their capacities as needed by investing in
technologies that boost data throughput.
Currently the largest among Philippine telcos, Jupiter is
anticipated to increase PLDT's international capacity of 20
Terabit/s to about 60 Terabit/s to US and Japan further establishing its lead, and ready
to scale with the growing demands of digital services. These
include the delivery of Cloud services, Fintech, and rich media
content, which seamlessly complements PLDT's existing fixed and
mobile services.
The Jupiter Cable system is a joint project of global providers
spanning 14,000 kilometers from the US to the
Philippines bringing PLDT's total number of international
cabling systems to 17.
Jupiter is key to enhancing PLDT's cable network
resilience, increasing the PLDT Group's submarine cable route
diversity, and helps assure customers with sustained capacity
availability in support of their growing demand for data and
continuing digital transformation.
Currently, PLDT operates the country's most extensive
international submarine cable network and is set to expand further
with the completion of two more major international cable systems
namely Asia Direct Cable (ADC), and the APRICOT cable system set to
be completed in the next two years.