Vulnerability of Submarine Cable Network of Mainland China: Comparison of Vulnerability between before and after Construction of Trans-Arctic Cable System

Table 1

Major international submarine cable systems landing in Mainland China.

No.	System	Code	Bandwidth capacity	Length (km)	Completed time	Remarks
1	China-Japan fiber-optic submarine cable system	C-J	560 mbps	1252	Dec, 1993	Abandoned in 2006
2	China-Korea fiber-optic submarine cable system	C-K	1120 mbps	549	Feb, 1996	Abandoned in 2005
3	FLAG Europe Asia	FLAG	10 Gbps	27000	Sep, 1997	In service
4	South-East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 3	SMW3	960 Gbps	39000	1999	In service
5	China-US cable network	CUCN	80 Gbps	30800	Jan, 2000	Abandoned in 2016
6	Asia Pacific cable network 2	APCN2	2.56 Tbps	19000	Dec, 2000	In service
7	East Asia crossing	EAC	2.56 Tbps	19850	Jan, 2002	In service
8	City-to-City cable system	C2C	7.68 Tbps	17000	Aug, 2002	In service
9	Trans-Pacific Express	TPE	5.12 Tbps	17700	Sep, 2008	In service
10	South-East Asia Japan cable system	SJC	15 Tbps	10700	Feb, 2013	In service
11	Asia Pacific gateway	APG	54 Tbps	10400	2016	In service
12	Asia-Africa-Europe-1 cable system	AAE-1	40 Tbps	25000	2017	In service
13	New crossing-Pacific cable system	NCP	60 Tbps	13618	2018	In service
14	Trans-Arctic cable system	TAC	60 Tbps	12700	by 2023	Planned