EAC-C2C

EAC-C2C is a submarine telecommunications cable system interconnecting several countries in Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. It is a merger of the former EAC (East Asia Crossing) and C2C cable systems.^[1] The merger occurred in 2007 by Asia Netcom, and the cable system is now owned/operated by Pacnet.^[2] Pacnet’s Subsea Network

EAC-C2C At the heart of Pacnet’s network is EAC-C2C, Asia’s largest privately owned fiber optic submarine cable network spanning 36,800 kilometers across Hong Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and Singapore. EAC-C2C has a design capacity of 17.92 Tbps to 30.72 Tbps to and from each of the landing countries, with continuous upgrades underway. The integration of EAC and C2C into a single system - with multiple landings and PoPs in key markets - has strengthened Pacnet’s position as the region's leading provider of next-generation communications solutions, offering unsurpassed flexibility, resiliency and route diversity. In April 2009, Pacnet completed the first phase of its upgrades to EAC-C2C, almost doubling its capacity by adding over 3,200Gbps of capacity across the network. In October 2009, Pacnet announced plans to add an additional 3,600 Gbps of capacity – its largest ever capacity upgrade. The latest upgrades have been completed in 2010 and has increased EAC-C2C’s capacity across all locations which it lands to meet burgeoning intra-Asia traffic demand.