We are talking about Apricot, not MIST which goes from Singapore to Yindia (west). Apricot goes east to Japan.
Below report is from less than 3 months ago, there is NO MENTION OF Sabah or Sarawak. Unless Wee KHAT Siong and Sato-san were discussing something more recent but the video meeting sounds more like a "sales pitch" where Sato san is asking for "big help for this project to achieve" meaning the project is not certain. I wonder what the "big help" is? Cabotage exemption for Kuching landing? Ha ha ha.....
Note there is NO MALAYSIAN LANDING POINT MENTIONED.
QUOTE 16 August 2021 NTT Ltd. to construct a new optical submarine cable, connecting Japan and Singapore, through Indonesian water
Tokyo, Japan – 16 August 2021 – NTT Ltd., a world-leading global technology services provider, today announced that it is forming a cable consortium with four other parties. The consortium will lead the construction and maintenance of the APRICOT large-capacity unique-routed optical submarine cable within Asian countries and the U.S..
The APRICOT cable system will be 12,000km long, with a capacity of more than 190Tbps. It will connect Japan to Singapore, with branches to Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan and the United States. NTT will be responsible for operating and managing the following sites for APRICOT system: Minamiboso landing station in Chiba Prefecture in Japan, landing station in Indonesia, and lastly Tuas landing station in Singapore.
NTT’s Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE), Asia Pacific Gateway (APG), Pacific Crossing-1 (PC-1), JUPITER and MIST cables will connect with APRICOT to provide diverse routes and linking major cities in Asia, Japan and United States, with a secure and reliable international network.
APRICOT will feature state-of-the-art submersible ROADM (reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer) employing WSS (wavelength selective switch) for a grid-less and flexible bandwidth configuration, based on SDM (Space Division Multiplexing) design. APRICOT is expected to launch in 2024 with initial design capacity of more than 190Tbps, to meet rising data demands and complement existing cable systems.
A unique route between Japan and Singapore Through establishing a new and different route from the existing cable systems, APRICOT will bring business continuity to the market, in the event outage due to the natural disaster or other external factor on the existing cable systems.
NTT will operate APRICOT in Japan, Indonesia and Singapore. NTT Ltd. Group company will provide the sites to APRICOT in Minamiboso, Japan, Indonesia and Tuas, Singapore. NTT in Japan and its Group company will provide connection to other cable systems via Tuas and the Minamiboso landing stations to maximize transmission route options to support global business expansion by customers.
In addition, NTT Ltd. Group companies will connect the data centers in Japan, Singapore and Indonesia to enlarge the transmission capacity connectivity among those countries.
Overview of APRICOT Undersea Cable ・Total design capacity : more than 190 Tbps (initial) ・Total cable length : 12,000km ・Landing points : Japan, Taiwan, U.S. (Guam), Philippines (2 locations), Indonesia and Singapore ・Operational launch : 2024 UNQUOTE
Ayam sure KT is so busy he will miss this FACT CHECK by OKM so I will reproduce here.....Wee KHAT Siong try to TIPU all Malay-sians....
QUOTE MP SPEAKS | Fact-checking Wee on cabotage policy debate Ong Kian Ming
Nov 5, 2021
.....In any debate on public policy, it is necessary to fact-check the statements made by the debaters. I can vouch for the facts and figures presented by Guan Eng since I was a member of the team that helped prepare his PowerPoint presentation.
Sadly, I do not have the same confidence in some of the points made by Wee in his presentation and they need to be highlighted for the public to know and for the press to ask more follow-up questions.
1) Is NTT the only shareholder and owner of the proposed Apricot undersea cable project?
Many times during the debate, Wee wanted to create the impression that NTT is the only owner of the proposed Apricot undersea submarine cable project that is bypassing Malaysia.
This is grossly misleading as there are a number of other shareholders in the project including Google, Facebook, PLDT which is the Philippines' largest telco company, and Chunghwa Telecom, a Taiwanese telco company.
Did Wee conveniently leave out the participation of other players in the Apricot project because two of the shareholders, Facebook and Google, were part of a group of companies (Malaysians and well as international companies) which sent two letters to former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin, and one letter to the current Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, asking for Wee’s cabotage policy to be set aside and for the return of the former transport minister Anthony Loke’s cabotage exemption policy on undersea submarine cable repairs?
2) Who is Yoshio Sato? Sato appears twice in the debate on Tuesday via a recorded Zoom call. Wee claims Sato was instrumental in the Apricot cable project and there is a slide in his presentation which shows Sato as a vice president of NTT.
Sato is no longer an employee of NTT because he left NTT to set up his own Singapore-registered company called Orient Link Pte Ltd.
While I do not doubt that Sato was working with NTT at the time that the Apricot undersea cable system was being planned, the Orient Link website states that he was only a manager at NTT and not a vice president of NTT, as reported in the press.
It was disingenuous for Wee to try to portray Sato as someone senior in the NTT leadership while he was not. Even if he was a VP of NTT before leaving the company, it would not be accurate to portray this position as being part of the senior leadership of the company.
For example, NTT currently lists down 13 senior vice presidents as part of their executive or leadership team. In other words, a vice president in a Japanese company like NTT would be someone in the middle management or a senior manager level, as indicated on the Orient Link website.
In other words, Sato is not with NTT and cannot speak on behalf of NTT’s future investments in the region and he was at best, a senior manager, in the company when he was working there. ....con't
Fact checking ong kian ming. Okm conveniently leaves out the fact that although Yoshio sato has left NTT, he now heads Orient Link a JV of NTT, WEN (an submarine maintenance co) and JICT (a Japanese fund).
Through this joint venture, NTT Ltd. will accelerate the submarine cable business, respond to the scale and speed of service demanded by customers, and further improve service quality with its partnerships.
Clearly Yoshio is an authority in submarine cables.
Jeff Ooi has had a bee in the bonnet about Lim Guan Eng at least since 2013.
ReplyDeleteWe are talking about Apricot, not MIST which goes from Singapore to Yindia (west). Apricot goes east to Japan.
ReplyDeleteBelow report is from less than 3 months ago, there is NO MENTION OF Sabah or Sarawak. Unless Wee KHAT Siong and Sato-san were discussing something more recent but the video meeting sounds more like a "sales pitch" where Sato san is asking for "big help for this project to achieve" meaning the project is not certain. I wonder what the "big help" is? Cabotage exemption for Kuching landing? Ha ha ha.....
Note there is NO MALAYSIAN LANDING POINT MENTIONED.
https://hello.global.ntt/en-us/newsroom/ntt-ltd-to-construct-a-new-optical-submarine-cable
QUOTE
16 August 2021
NTT Ltd. to construct a new optical submarine cable, connecting Japan and Singapore, through Indonesian water
Tokyo, Japan – 16 August 2021 – NTT Ltd., a world-leading global technology services provider, today announced that it is forming a cable consortium with four other parties. The consortium will lead the construction and maintenance of the APRICOT large-capacity unique-routed optical submarine cable within Asian countries and the U.S..
The APRICOT cable system will be 12,000km long, with a capacity of more than 190Tbps. It will connect Japan to Singapore, with branches to Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan and the United States. NTT will be responsible for operating and managing the following sites for APRICOT system: Minamiboso landing station in Chiba Prefecture in Japan, landing station in Indonesia, and lastly Tuas landing station in Singapore.
NTT’s Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE), Asia Pacific Gateway (APG), Pacific Crossing-1 (PC-1), JUPITER and MIST cables will connect with APRICOT to provide diverse routes and linking major cities in Asia, Japan and United States, with a secure and reliable international network.
APRICOT will feature state-of-the-art submersible ROADM (reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer) employing WSS (wavelength selective switch) for a grid-less and flexible bandwidth configuration, based on SDM (Space Division Multiplexing) design. APRICOT is expected to launch in 2024 with initial design capacity of more than 190Tbps, to meet rising data demands and complement existing cable systems.
A unique route between Japan and Singapore
Through establishing a new and different route from the existing cable systems, APRICOT will bring business continuity to the market, in the event outage due to the natural disaster or other external factor on the existing cable systems.
NTT will operate APRICOT in Japan, Indonesia and Singapore.
NTT Ltd. Group company will provide the sites to APRICOT in Minamiboso, Japan, Indonesia and Tuas, Singapore. NTT in Japan and its Group company will provide connection to other cable systems via Tuas and the Minamiboso landing stations to maximize transmission route options to support global business expansion by customers.
In addition, NTT Ltd. Group companies will connect the data centers in Japan, Singapore and Indonesia to enlarge the transmission capacity connectivity among those countries.
Overview of APRICOT Undersea Cable
・Total design capacity : more than 190 Tbps (initial)
・Total cable length : 12,000km
・Landing points : Japan, Taiwan, U.S. (Guam), Philippines (2 locations), Indonesia and Singapore
・Operational launch : 2024
UNQUOTE
Ayam sure KT is so busy he will miss this FACT CHECK by OKM so I will reproduce here.....Wee KHAT Siong try to TIPU all Malay-sians....
ReplyDeleteQUOTE
MP SPEAKS | Fact-checking Wee on cabotage policy debate
Ong Kian Ming
Nov 5, 2021
.....In any debate on public policy, it is necessary to fact-check the statements made by the debaters. I can vouch for the facts and figures presented by Guan Eng since I was a member of the team that helped prepare his PowerPoint presentation.
Sadly, I do not have the same confidence in some of the points made by Wee in his presentation and they need to be highlighted for the public to know and for the press to ask more follow-up questions.
1) Is NTT the only shareholder and owner of the proposed Apricot undersea cable project?
Many times during the debate, Wee wanted to create the impression that NTT is the only owner of the proposed Apricot undersea submarine cable project that is bypassing Malaysia.
This is grossly misleading as there are a number of other shareholders in the project including Google, Facebook, PLDT which is the Philippines' largest telco company, and Chunghwa Telecom, a Taiwanese telco company.
Did Wee conveniently leave out the participation of other players in the Apricot project because two of the shareholders, Facebook and Google, were part of a group of companies (Malaysians and well as international companies) which sent two letters to former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin, and one letter to the current Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, asking for Wee’s cabotage policy to be set aside and for the return of the former transport minister Anthony Loke’s cabotage exemption policy on undersea submarine cable repairs?
2) Who is Yoshio Sato?
Sato appears twice in the debate on Tuesday via a recorded Zoom call. Wee claims Sato was instrumental in the Apricot cable project and there is a slide in his presentation which shows Sato as a vice president of NTT.
Sato is no longer an employee of NTT because he left NTT to set up his own Singapore-registered company called Orient Link Pte Ltd.
While I do not doubt that Sato was working with NTT at the time that the Apricot undersea cable system was being planned, the Orient Link website states that he was only a manager at NTT and not a vice president of NTT, as reported in the press.
It was disingenuous for Wee to try to portray Sato as someone senior in the NTT leadership while he was not. Even if he was a VP of NTT before leaving the company, it would not be accurate to portray this position as being part of the senior leadership of the company.
For example, NTT currently lists down 13 senior vice presidents as part of their executive or leadership team. In other words, a vice president in a Japanese company like NTT would be someone in the middle management or a senior manager level, as indicated on the Orient Link website.
In other words, Sato is not with NTT and cannot speak on behalf of NTT’s future investments in the region and he was at best, a senior manager, in the company when he was working there.
....con't
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DeleteFact checking ong kian ming. Okm conveniently leaves out the fact that although Yoshio sato has left NTT, he now heads Orient Link a JV of NTT, WEN (an submarine maintenance co) and JICT (a Japanese fund).
DeleteThrough this joint venture, NTT Ltd. will accelerate the submarine cable business, respond to the scale and speed of service demanded by customers, and further improve service quality with its partnerships.
Clearly Yoshio is an authority in submarine cables.
https://hello.global.ntt/en-us/newsroom/ntt-ltd-to-establish-a-strategic-joint-venture-company