TPE (cable system)

TPE or Trans-Pacific Express is a submarine telecommunications cable linking China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States.

[2] Most links to China had to go through a hub in Japan, and access topped out at 155 Mbit/s.

[5] The TPE is more than 60 times the overall capacity of the existing cable directly linking the U.S. and China, and thus its construction was a major enhancement to the cable systems between the two nations.

[6] It is the first next-generation undersea optical cable system directly linking the U.S. and China,[7] and was also the first major undersea system to land on the U.S. West Coast in more than seven years.

[8] Initially, the Trans-Pacific Express cable was configured to handle traffic at 1.28 terabits per second (Tbit/s), but the system has a design capacity of up to 5.12 Tbit/s.