In a lunch event today, Globe Telecom and Tata Communications announced that their new submarine cable system has been activated and carrying traffic to the Philippines.
Called the Tata Global Network – Intra Asia (TGN-IA), the cable system has been in plans since 2006 (even before the Taiwan earthquake that crippled internet in the Philippines).
The cable system now connects Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Japan to the Philippines. The cable networks were designed to avoid the earthquake zones around Taiwan and will offer a total capacity of 3.84 Terabits per second.
Globe’s initial capacity is 50Gbps which effectively doubles the total bandwidth capacity of the Philippines.
Well, what does this mean to regular consumers?
- Much less congestion in Globe’s network so subscribers are able to achieve their allocated bandwidth speeds.
- Reduced latency for business customers. This is good for VOIP and network gaming. The route between Singapore to Japan will now have the lowest latency in Asia at only 63ms.
- Alternative international cable network that will reduce incidents (like connectivity failures and congestions) caused by natural disasters like the Taiwan earthquake of 2006.
The cable landing site is now located at Ballesteros in Cagayan province, away from the usual landing sites in Nasugbu, Batangas. Globe Telecom spent $90 milllion for this project.
The past couple of weeks, Globe’s HSDPA service has been pathetic. Bandwidth is clogged to the point that loading the simplest of pages take minutes. Moreover, the signal keeps dying often such that the connection would disconnect altogether, which is bad for downloads.
I am HOPING that these are just side-effects of this supposed upgrade.
depende yata talaga yan sa location, base on my observation mas ok ang mga nasa south na gumamit ng globe since sabi nga sa post nasa cagayan or batangas ang landing site ng cables nila.. i’m from cavite and i’m happy with my globe broadband but here in the office we use pldt and it sucks
@sapphireboi
hey same here. No problems whatsoever.
Although I do wish the upstream was better >_>
For more than one year with Globe Broadband, I am lucky that I haven’t experienced game lags, internet disconnections and other inconveniences (“,) so far.
Location: Imus, Cavite
Plan 1295 Bandwidth: 1mbps
Consistent Actual Bandwidth (speedtest.net) – 1.1 to 1.2 mbps downstream and 300 to 400 kbps upstream.
Good deal, but I agree Mr. Miguel that they should fix their proxies so that they can harness the real power of that speed.
But I thought they’re planning to bring WiMax here in the Philippines, we all know that it is the future of internet connectivity. So they should focus on that now.
In our electronics class, we just solved bandwidth which is equal to the dominant upper critical frequency minus dominant lower critical frequency of an amplifier circuit.
This addition of bandwidth is good for the philippines and a month ago, i just realized that there are lots of under-ocean wires in the world and i thought internet uses satellite to transmit data. LOL!
How large the wire being used? I haven’t seen a real photo of the under ocean wire.. :(
rephrase ko lang po 13mbs lang po pala hindi 13gig sa mga home users.
so where can we buy 1 tera bit bandwith
wow ayus nga. 50gig. sa Singapore 13Gig lang sa mga home users.
@calvin – oo nga parang iba yung dating ng TGN-IA. baka yan ang masasabi ng mga users pag sobrang bagal ng internet connection nila.
guys, you cannot compare globe dsl to smart bro. globe dsl is fixed line connection, while smart bro is using 3G networks (or 3.5 G)which is OTA.
compare globe tatoo and smart bro instead or globe dsl and mypldt dsl services.
this article though, is about both globe’s internet services connection.
Clogged pa rin :). Anyway, hope they offer cheaper prices.
hmm good news.. but i think ill wait for what san miguel has to offer. i heard they’re bringing wimax here in the philippines or maybe a somewhat wimax-like service.
With more bandwidth, they should turn off their transparent web proxy. That’s the biggest problem with their DSL now.
Hi have also heard that smartbro will make their 1 mbps into 2 mbps this coming april. I don’t believe it. We’ll just find out.
Globe is not good but smart bro is worse…
I do agree Globe s*cks big time! unprofessional customer support.. intermittent internet connection, unreliable… product ads and press releases are pure HYPE!… lol
I’ve been a globe broadband user since 2006, and they have excellent service here in dasmarinas, cavite. Inggit nga mga neighbors ko dito kasi I have a very fast connection. Smart bro kasi gamit nila and that’s what sucks. By the way, I also have an internet shop with globe as my service provider, so far so good.
hey have to fix their customer support next.
TGN-IA, if you look at it with blurred eyes you will see a different spelling hehehe.
Globe broadband sucks and sucks big time. All this hype is not ever going to succeed in making me believe in their product ads and press releases. Avoid Globe broadband if you want peace of mind.
Wow! Galing ng globe wah. 50Gbps pa! My goodness! Tinalo pa ang sky broadband internet… Kelan kya yan mararamdaman?