AAG submarine cable restored 100% traffic on October 1

The latest information from FPT Telecom Company on the evening of September 23 said that by 1:00 a.m. on October 1, the incident at the AAG (Asia Gateway Pacific) submarine cable line is expected to be completed, and 100% of the transmission channels from Vietnam to international via this cable line will be restored.

Vietnam's international Internet connection is expected to be restored on October 1. Photo: Vietnam+

According to the schedule, at 5:00 p.m. on September 26, the ship will arrive at the location of the faulty cable. The ship will start welding the cable at 7:00 p.m. on September 28 and by 1:00 a.m. on October 1, the cable will be completely welded.

At around 4am on October 1, the unit began burying the cable. The repair work was completed at 6am on October 3.

Thus, the troubleshooting of this submarine optical cable will be completed 3 days earlier than the previous announcement by the AAG operator. The reason is because the weather is favorable and the Hong Kong authorities allowed the cable welding ship to enter the territorial waters early.

Previously, at 11:41 p.m. on September 15, an incident occurred that caused the AAG international submarine cable to have a cable fault on the S1I cable section, 64 km from the Hong Kong landing station. This incident affected the traffic of telecommunications service providers in Vietnam operating on this line, including FPT Telecom.

Immediately after that, businesses operating services on the cable line immediately deployed many measures to support users in accessing the international Internet. FPT Telecom itself used land cables to forward the downed AAG traffic to minimize the impact on customers.

Put into use in late 2009, AAG is a 20,000km long submarine cable system with a design capacity of 2 Terabit/second, directly connecting Southeast Asia with the US. In addition, AAG can also connect to Australia, India, Europe and Africa through the system's landing point. The landing point in Vietnam of this international submarine cable system is in Vung Tau city.

According to Vietnam+