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Hanoi (VNA) - A broken section of the Asia-America Gateway (AAG) undersea cablelinking Southeast Asia and the US has been detected in recent times, aninternet service provider said on June 2.
Repairs areunderway and may last until June 6.
The cable previouslybroke on May 14 at the S1H section connecting Vietnam with Hong Kong (China),causing interruptions to international internet traffic.
The providersaid repairs to this cable were to begin on May 28 and were supposed to wrap upon June 2.
The20,191-km AAG cable has been in use since 2009, passing through Malaysia,Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Hong Kong (China), the Philippines, andthe US (Guam, Hawaii, and California).
The Asia-PacificGateway (APG) cable, meanwhile, is also in need of repair. The cable broke at theS1.7 section on May 14, causing a loss of internet connection between Vietnam andother countries. It may also have suffered a rupture at the S9 section linking Vietnamwith Singapore in late April.
The cablesystem was put into operation at the end of 2016 in order to reduce Vietnam’sdependence on the AAG.
The 10,400km-long APG boasts a capacity of 54Tbps - the highest of any network in Asia -and connects eight countries and territories in the Asia-Pacific region. It wasfunded by VNPT, Viettel, FPT, and CMC Telecom./.
