TPE, known as Trans-Pacific Express cable system, is initially invested by six telecoms operators - China Unicom, China Telecom and China Unicom on the Chinese mainland, Chunghwa Telecom of Taiwan(CHT), Korea Telecom (KT) and Verizon Business of the United States. It has five landing points : Qingdao in Shandong Province(CU), and Chongming in Shanghai (CT), Tanshui in Taiwan (CHT), Keoje in Korea(KT), and one in the United States, Nedonna Beach in Oregon. The cable, a $500-million investment of the consortium team is 13,000 miles long and will carry 2.56 Tbits/sec.

The Trans-Pacific Express Cable is the first next-generation undersea optical cable system directly linking the United States and China, and the first major undersea system to land on the U.S. West Coast in more than seven years, TPE will be more than 60 times the overall capacity of the existing cable directly linking the United States and China and, thus, will be a major enhancement to the current cable systems between the two nations. This next-generation undersea system, coupled with CU's other undersea and terrestrial cables, will provide multinational customers doing business in Asia with data services that operate at faster speeds with increased reliability and extensive route diversity.



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