From June 5th to 9th, 2023, the ADC (Asia Direct Cable) project council held a conference on the largest submarine cable project in Vietnam at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. The event was hosted by Viettel Solutions, a member of the Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel).
The conference took place over 5 days with the participation of 8 investors, including NT, China Telecom, China Unicom, PLDT Inc., Singtel, SoftBank Corp., Tata Communications, Viettel, and contractor NEC.
The focus of the conference was to resolve any implementation issues in order to put the cable into operation early in 2024.
Within the framework of the conference, investors reviewed the project's progress, and proposed topics for discussion on both technical and commercial issues. The conference approved the plan to install equipment at the remaining landing station, and identified the predicted time to complete the landing station of the cable in Singapore, which is also the final landing point of the ADC project.
In addition, plans for integration, testing, and project acceptance, plans for training personnel at landing stations, and terms and adjustments related to the rights and responsibilities of partner members of the ADC system were also discussed in order to ensure the progress of the entire project.
In 2022, Viettel officially announced the landing of the ADC international submarine cable in Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh, Vietnam. This cable has connections to all 3 major IP hubs in the Asia region (Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore), and is also the largest submarine cable in Vietnam in terms of bandwidth.
According to the Minister of Information and Communications, the construction of new submarine cable is necessary to accelerate Vietnam's goal of becoming a Digital Hub in the region. Therefore, Vietnam needs to develop 4 to 6 new cables by 2030 and Vietnamese telecommunications companies need to take the lead, represent the investment group, and conduct research, evaluation, and investment proposals.
As the only company in Vietnam to invest in the ADC submarine cable, and the owner of the landing station of the cable in Quy Nhon and owns 18Tbps of international capacity on this cable, Viettel is becoming the company with the largest international connectivity infrastructure in Vietnam.
ADC (Asia Direct Cable) is a submarine cable about 9,800 km long connecting China (Hong Kong and Guangdong Province), Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The ADC submarine cable system is designed with 8 fiber pairs (FP) and has the capacity to transmit more than 140 Tbps of data traffic, allowing high-capacity transmission across the East Asia and Southeast Asia region.
This is a submarine cable using the most modern transmission technology, connecting countries in the Asia-Pacific region, with an initial investment of 290 million USD. ADC is capable of supporting applications with increasing bandwidth requirements, thanks to technological advances in the fields of 5G, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and Artificial Intelligence. This will continue to expand the region's telecommunications network.
