Tata Communications and Tyco Telecommunications have completed the installation, testing and commissioning of the TGN-Intra Asia (TGN-IA) cable system. The 6,700 km TGN-IA system con nects Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Vietnam and the Philippines, and pr

Tata Communications and Tyco Telecommunications have completed the installation, testing and commissioning of the TGN-Intra Asia (TGN-IA) cable system. The 6,700 km TGN-IA system connects Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Vietnam and the Philippines, and provides route diversity throughout the AsiaPacific region. The system, strategically designed and routed to avoid earthquake and hazardous areas in the region, has an initial design capacity of 3.8 Tbps on a city centre-to-city centre basis and provides latency between Southeast and Northern Asia.