Guam Marianas is an IT&E operated cable providing capacity to the Northern Marianas. It was completed in 1997 by the Micronesian Telecommunications Corporation and originally operated at 622 Mbps. For a time it was owned by Verizon. It was upgraded in 2014 with Ciena equipment to support 10 Gbps of traffic. Redundancy provided by a chain of microwave links operating around 1 Gbps. Outages were the motivation for Docomo Pacific building the ATISA cable.
Lands at:
- Tanguisson, Guam
- Rota, CNMI
- Tinian, CNMI
- Saipan, CNMI
Additional Resources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190529074242/https://placesmap.net/MP/It-e-Cnmi-694065324020743/