ARTERIA, AT TOKYO Partner for Tokyo Port Submarine Cable

By ARTERIA Networks Corporation
Jan 4, 2023

ARTERIA Networks Corporation (headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Tatsuya Abe; hereinafter, “ARTERIA”) and AT TOKYO Corporation (headquarters: Koto-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Tatsuya Izumida; hereinafter, ”AT TOKYO”) have entered into an agreement (hereinafter, “Agreement”) on the installation and use of communication cable facilities, and set to install the first^*1 optical fiber cable to traverse the Tokyo Port. This new cable will link the Toyosu-Ariake and Shibaura-Shinagawa areas, where many IT companies are concentrated.

Background

Infrastructure for communications has become essential in supporting our daily lives, not only for calls and internet connections, but also in many other aspects such as cashless payments, security, disaster prevention, and the use of cloud services. Also, the recent workstyle reforms, the increase of rich content such as video streaming, and the widespread adoption of DX, AI, and IoT upsurge the communication traffic in data centers where such data is accumulated, underlining the urgency of enhancing the infrastructure that supports these communications.

In response to such demands, ARTERIA and AT TOKYO have entered into this Agreement to install an optical fiber communications cable that will cross the Tokyo Port using the Horizontal Directional Drilling method (hereinafter, “HDD method”^*2). AT TOKYO will establish its Chuo Center #3 in the Shibaura-Shinagawa area by July 2024 as a network connection hub alongside its existing data centers, supporting information infrastructure in Tokyo where major financial institutions, content providers, and telecommunications companies from not only Japan, but also from Asia and rest of the world converge. ARTERIA, as a leading communications infrastructure service provider, will connect the IT companies in Toyosu-Ariake area to the new AT TOKYO data center in the Shibaura-Shinagawa area via a high-capacity, low-latency, and shortest cable route, thereby supporting businesses in Tokyo that serves as a hub for high-tech and international financial industries.

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