Vietnam puts regional land cable to use
Ha Noi, Feb. 2 (VNA) -- Viet Nam has put an optical-fibre cable system linking Viet Nam with China and four ASEAN countries into use, the Viet Nam Post and Telecommunications Corporation (VNPT) said.
The 7,000 km cable - which also runs through Laos, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand - would help VNPT handle hundreds of international telecom channels. In Viet Nam, the cable runs from nothern Lang Son province to central Ha Tinh province, 500 km south of Ha Noi, before connecting to neighbouring China and Laos.
In addition to eight Intersat and Interspunit earth stations and three international switchboards, Viet Nam's telecom network is now hooked to three international optical fibre cables.
The other two are the international undersea optical fibre cable SEA-ME-WE-3 (SMW-3), which links 34 countries in Europe, Asia and America; and the Thailand-Viet Nam-Hong Kong optical-fibre under sea-cable (TVH).--VNA
