G-P Explained

Cable Name:	G-P
Landing Points:	Batangas Bay, the Philippines Tanguisson Point, Tumon Village, Guam
Design Capacity:	20 Gbit/s
Length:	3600km (2,200miles)

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:^[1]

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

It has a design transmission capacity of 20 Gbit/s, starting operation at 5 Gbit/s and a total cable length of 3600km (2,200miles). It started operation on 31 March 1999.

Sources

• Web site: Application for a license to land and operate in the United States a private fiber optic cable system extending between Guam and the Philippines, the G-P Cable System. fcc.gov. December 15, 1998. February 17, 2006.

Notes and References

1. http://www.cablemap.info/?c=G-P G-P