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Submarine
Cable Systems

Connecting Continents and Communities

Communication is the nerve system of societies. The evolution of our modern society has been mirrored by the advancement of communications technology. Today, communications plays an even stronger and more vital role, in connecting continents and people all over the world. Submarine cable systems carry over 99% of intercontinental communication traffic, making them the invisible enabler of global connectivity.

Our Values

NEC has been manufacturing cable since 1935 and subsea housings since 1968. Decades of development experience continue to underpin our products and solutions today.

History

Over the years, NEC has built a reputation for efficient project management on-time delivery which puts it at the forefront of the cable industry.

Delivery

Our mission is to assure complete customer satisfaction, and we strive to achieve this through a deeply ingrained Japanese culture of quality which aims for nothing less than perfection.

Quality

NEC's commitment to innovation results in solutions which embody the latest technological advancements – providing our customers with ever-higher global capacity, while driving down the cost per bit.

Innovation

NEC has accumulated unparalleled experience of building complex turnkey cable systems in the most challenging political and marine environments. As a result, NEC is a trusted partner to many of the world’s cable owners.

Experience

NEC's commitment to innovation results in solutions which embody the latest technological advancements – providing our customers with ever-higher global capacity, while driving down the cost per bit.

Innovation

NEC has accumulated unparalleled experience of building complex turnkey cable systems in the most challenging political and marine environments. As a result, NEC is a trusted partner to many of the world’s cable owners.

Experience

Selected Projects

Overview

Overview

MIST

The MIST (Myanmar/Malaysia India Singapore Transit) Cable System will directory connect Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and India, with a cablr length of almost 8,100km, and a design capacity of more than 216 terabits per second (Tbps).

ADC

ADC is a 9,400km high-performance submarine cable connecting China (Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong Province), Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

SJC2

SJC2 The Southeast Asia–Japan 2 (SJC2) cable is a 10,500km optical submarine cable system to connect Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, Korea and Japan.

JUNO

JUNO Cable System is a 10,000km high performance submarine cable connecting US and Japan.

EMCS

EMCS, with a total length of approximately 2,250km, will connect four islands amongst FSM (Pohnpei and Kosrae), Kiribati (Tarawa) and Nauru with a large-capacity optical fibre submarine cable.

Press Releases

October 2, 2023: NEC Completes Patara-2 Submarine Cable System in Indonesia
September 28, 2023: NEC sets record for 800 Gbps long-distance transmission over an optical submarine cable system
- Record transmission distance of 2,100 km achieved -
June 6, 2023: NEC to supply East Micronesia Cable System (EMCS)
July 21, 2022: NEC to build new trans-Pacific cable
- Cable to provide the largest data capacity between the US and Japan -
March 28, 2022: Development and Demonstration of World-leading Technologies that
Increase Submarine Optical Cable Capacity with Multicore Fiber
Feasibility of capacity seven times higher than existing systems verified
October 8, 2021: NEC to build a transatlantic cable
The first transoceanic cable to achieve ½ Petabit per second capacity, and also the first to employ 24 fiber pairs
October 4, 2021: NEC Corporation, OCC Corporation and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. complete first trial of submarine cable with multicore fiber
- Submarine cables to feature a 4-fold increase in the number of independent data channels with the next generation of space division multiplexing (SDM) technology -
March 19, 2021: NEC qualifies 24 fiber pair subsea telecom cable system
- Fully qualified end-to-end solution for larger capacity and better connectivity -
January 26, 2021: NEC delivers submarine cable seismic and tsunami observation system to Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau
January 14, 2021: NEC concludes contract to supply the Palau Cable 2 (PC2) optical submarine cable
December 18, 2020: NEC completes submarine cable system for BSNL connecting Chennai, India and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands
August 21, 2020: OLL and NEC Launch MIST Cable System Construction
- More than 216Tbps capacity to serve bandwidth growth in Asia -
July 6, 2020: JGA North is Ready for Service
- 24 Tbps Interconnecting Japan, Australia, and the United States -
June 11, 2020: Asia Direct Cable Consortium to build new Asia Pacific submarine cable
January 15, 2020: NEC qualifies 20 fiber pair subsea telecom cable systems, with further advances soon
- Innovations to push NEC subsea cables to 24 fiber pairs and beyond -
February 18, 2019: NEC to build submarine cable system for Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company
- Contributing to securing backup lines in the event of a disaster -
October 1, 2018: The South Atlantic Cable System ready for service
- NEC completes world's first submarine cable crossing the South Atlantic -
July 12, 2018: BSNL selects NEC to build submarine cable system between Chennai and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands
~ NEC Technologies India awarded the Turnkey Contract ~
July 9, 2018: NEC to build the Bay to Bay Express Cable System
~ Bay to Bay Express to connect two of the biggest bay areas in the world ~
May 15, 2018: NEC brings AI to submarine cable networks

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