International undersea communications cable system

15th December, 2009 by Adina
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The construction of an international undersea communications cable system has recently been announced by Google and a group of other companies, including KDDI Corp, the Japanese telecoms giant. The project seems to worth $400 million and it’s going to be the highest capacity communications system, with 17 Terabits per second, which can soon be improved to 23Tbps. It is known under the name of Southeast Asia Japan Cable and will be completed somewhere in the spring of 2012.

Globe Telecom and some units from Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications are also involved in this project. The total length of the cable system will be about 5,150 miles and will connect, for a start, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines and Japan. It is due to provide better and faster Internet access to a part of the world where there are no fast pipelines to the West (this is why the Internet access is slowed down).


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