APNG (cable system)

APNG (cable system)

APNG (Australia Papua New Guinea ) is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Coral Sea linking Australia and Papua New Guinea.

It has landing points in:
*Cairns, Queensland, Australia
*Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

It is an analogue coaxial copper cable with a capacity of 480 channels at 5 MHz each, giving a data rate of 16 Mbit/s. It has a total cable length of 897 km. It started operation in 1976 and has been replaced by the APNG-2 cable.

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accessdate=October 04
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