AAG cable system to be completely repaired on October 3

Repair to the Asia-America Gateway (AAG) underwater cable system is expected to be completed on October 3, the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) has announced.

The AAG section linking Vietnam and Hong Kong was found broken on September 15 at a point near Hong Kong and has been causing a slowdown in internet connection from Vietnam to foreign web services.

VNPT said the expected repair completion date is three days earlier than initially estimated.

Under the plan, a cable ship will arrive at the point where the cable is damaged on September 26 and began joining the broken cable.

VNPT said the incident had reduced Vietnam’s internet bandwidth to Hong Kong and the United States by 40% and VNPT had to re-route its traffic to the SMW-3 cable system and other terrestrial cables to ensure its customers would be least affected by the incident.

The cable was also damaged on July 15, and repairs on that breakage took nearly two weeks to be completed.

AAG is a 20,000 kilometre underwater cable system with a capacity of 2 terabits per second, connecting Southeast Asia and the United States.

(Source: nhandan.org.vn)