G-P (cable system)

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G-P (or Guam-Philippines Fiber Optic Submarine Cable System) is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the North Pacific Ocean linking the two named territories.

It has landing points in:

• Batangas Bay, Batangas City, Batangas Province, the Philippines
• Tanguisson Point, Dededo Village, Guam

It has a design transmission capacity of 20 Gbit/s, starting operation at 5 Gbit/s and a total cable length of 3,600 km. It started operation on 31 March 1999.

[edit] See also

• Guam-Philippines Cable Company website. Retrieved on February 17, 2006.

[edit] Sources

• http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/International/Orders/1998/da982550.txt. Retrieved on February 17, 2006.
• http://www.gpcc.jp/G-P-Route.htm. Retrieved on February 17, 2006.
• http://www.gpcc.jp/SysDescrip_main.htm. Retrieved on February 17, 2006.
• http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/pdf/Islands/Guam_map.pdf. Retrieved on February 17, 2006.