G-P (or Guam-Philippines Fiber Optic Submarine Cable System) is a
submarine telecommunications cable system in the
North Pacific Ocean
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Etymology
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linking the two named territories.
It has
landing points in:
G-P
Greg's cable map
*Batangas Bay
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, Batangas City
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, Batangas Province
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, the Philippines
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*Tanguisson Point, Tumon Village, Guam
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It has a design transmission capacity of 20 Gbit/s, starting operation at 5 Gbit/s and a total cable length of . It started operation on 31 March 1999.
Sources
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References
Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean
Philippines–United States relations
1999 establishments in Guam
1999 establishments in the Philippines
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