ERMC or Europe-Russia-Mongolia-China (also known as Europe-Russia-China or ERC) is an overland telecommunications cable system linking Asia and Europe via Russia and Mongolia. It provides an alternative, shorter path to
submarine communications cable
A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried te ...
s. The system's capacity can be increased from an as-built 40 Gbit/s to 400 Gbit/s.
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Telecommunications infrastructure
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