KVH Co. Ltd., Asia’s leading information delivery platform headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, today announced new Backhaul Service solutions in Japan that connect the Chikura Cable Landing Station (Chikura City, Chiba Prefecture) and the Toyohashi Cable Landing Station (Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture) with central Tokyo and Osaka through KVH’s Ethernet backbone network. The Chikura CLS and Toyohashi CLS will be commercially available from October 1, 2014.
With the evolution of sub-sea capacity moving to 100G levels, there is strong demand for high-speed connectivity from the major submarine landing stations in Japan, Chikura and Toyohashi, to central Tokyo and Osaka. KVH’s new Backhaul Service targets global service providers and carriers with network capacity requirements to connect their sub-sea capacity to these key metropolitan cities. With a simplified contractual process and pricing, KVH provides a one-stop solution for dedicated connectivity in Japan’s main metropolitan areas and provides customers with an alternative to using other major Japanese carriers.
These two cable landing stations connect to KVH’s Points of Presence for the KVH DCNet service. This allows global service providers and carriers to expand their network capacity from these two cable landing stations to 60 plus data centers and points of presence in the greater metropolitan areas of Tokyo and Osaka. Launched in June 2014, DCNet is a data center network service that connects 100 plus industry leading data centers in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States.
The Chikura and Toyohashi Cable Landing Stations connect to the following submarine cable systems.
- Chikura Cable Landing Station: APCN2, China-US Cable Network, EAC-C2C, Southeast Asia Japan Cable (SJC), Unity.
- Toyohashi Cable Landing Station: Tata TGN-Pacific, TGN-IA
KVH will offer the Backhaul Service in the form of short term and long term leases. The service is available as 10G, 100G Ethernet, with a LR interface. Service will be available initially as a linear point-to-point offering, and at a later date as a protected service.
