wiredInUSA January 2018

Pacific crossing

group with connectivity from the landing station throughout the West Coast and with connectivity options throughout North America.

The New Cross Pacific (NCP) US backhaul group, comprising Chunghwa Telecom, KT Corporation, China Telecom, China Mobile International and China Unicom, has selected Zayo Group Holdings for a private dedicated network (PDN) to diversely backhaul traffic from its US landing station. The 13,000km (8,000 mile) NCP subsea cable will link Asian landing stations in Chongming, Nanhui, Lingang, Busan, Toucheng and Maruyama with the landing station in Hillsboro, Oregon. The NCP cable is expected to land in the next few months, providing capacity up to 80Tbps.

The PDN solution provides dark fiber as well as a full range of managed fiber solutions.

“This milestone agreement leverages our dense fiber connectivity across the West Coast to cable landing stations, andprovides the group with a high-capacity solution that we can turn up quickly and efficiently,” said Jack Waters, CTO and president of fiber solutions at Zayo. Most domestic bandwidth to and from a trans-Pacific destination will route through one of the new West Coast cable landing stations.

Zayo’s 4,300km (2,700 mile) backhaul solution will provide NCP’s US backhaul

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