FIRST MULTILATERAL MARITIME COOPERATIVE ACTIVITY IN WPS BY PH, USA, AU AND JAPAN

Philippines, United States, Australia and Japan hold first Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity in West Philippine Sea

CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), Australian Defence Force (ADF) and Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) successfully conducted the first Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity (MMCA) in the West Philippine Sea on Sunday, April 7. 

The MMCA held within the Philippine Exclusive Economic Zone involved naval vessels and aircraft from the four countries. Participants include the BRP Gregorio Del Pilar (PS15) with AW109 helicopter, BRP Antonio Luna (FF151) with AW159 Wildcat ASW helicopter, and BRP Valentin Diaz (PS177) from the Philippine Navy; the USS Mobile and a P-8A Poseidon from the United States Navy; the Royal Australian Navy HMAS Warramunga and Royal Australian Air Force P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft; and the JS Akebono from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces.

The MMCA demonstrated the participating countries’ commitment to strengthen regional and international cooperation in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific through interoperability exercises in the maritime domain. It will also contribute greatly to the AFP's capability development.

The participants performed communication exercise, division tactics or Officer of the Watch maneuver, and a photo exercise. These activities were designed to enhance the different forces' abilities to work together effectively in maritime scenarios.

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Construction starts on $250-M SEA-US cable system

ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 03/31/2015 2:08 PM

MANILA, Philippines
— Construction on a $250 million submarine cable system that would directly connect Indonesia and the United States has begun.

The South-East Asia-United States (SEA-US) submarine cable system will link the five areas and territories of Manado in Indonesia, Davao in Southern Philippines; Piti in the territory of Guam; as well as Honolulu (on the island of Oahu), Hawaii; and Los Angeles, California in the continental U.S.

The landmark project is being undertaken by the SEA-US consortium, which consists of Globe Telecom, PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia International (Telin), RAM Telecom International (RTI), Hawaiian Telcom, Teleguam Holdings (GTA), GTI Corporation (a member of the Globe Telecom group of companies) and Telkom USA.

Approximately 15,000 kilometers in length, the system has been designed and engineered to bypass earthquake prone areas in East Asia.

The cable system will provide an initial 20 terabit per second (Tb/s) capacity, with state-of-the-art 100 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) technology. This is expected to address the growing demand for bandwidth between Southeast Asia and North America.

"The SEA-US project will enable Globe to play a major role in providing superior connectivity for consumers and businesses in the Philippines to connect to the US. Our link-up with the SEA-US cable system will serve the exponential growth of mobile Internet use in our country, enabling the Filipino digital lifestyle and wonderful experience for our customers and businesses," Gil Genio, Globe Telecom executive vice president and COO, said.

Genio noted this project would also benefit the Philippines' outsourcing and offshoring industry, including major contact centers, business process outsourcing providers, global financial institutions which require large bandwidth.

Syarif Syarial Ahmad, president director of Indonesia's Telin, said the cable project represents "one of the biggest milestones for Indonesia’s rapid growth in communications.

"Our objective is now closer with SEA-US given that it is the first cable system with direct connection from Indonesia to USA, where most of the Internet’s content is sourced," he said.

NEC Corporation and NEC Corporation of America are the system suppliers for the project that is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2016.


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source: ABS-CBN News