GNG News Guy
02-26-2008, 02:23 PM
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The recent quakes in Taiwan (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/80539) highlighted a lack of redundancy in the Pacific, where fiber runs have about half the capacity found across the Atlantic. A number of companies are planning to rectify that -- including Verizon, who is working with a number of companies to run an 11,000 mile, five terabits per second (Tbps) cable (http://www.verizonbusiness.com/us/about/news/releases/release.xml?newsid=24233&mode=vzlong&lang=en&width=567&root=/us/about/news/releases/&subroot=release.xml&langlinks=off) from the United States (Oregon) directly to mainland China, Taiwan and South Korea.
Google too is involved in laying Pacific fiber as part of a consortium named Unity, that was formed with six international companies. The coalition is building a 6,200 mile, 7.68Tbps capable fiber run from Los Angeles to Chikura, located off the coast near Tokyo. Google today announced (http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080225_newcablesystem.html) they finalized the deal on the $300 million project. Google will then get access to that bandwidth at build cost.
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The recent quakes in Taiwan (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/80539) highlighted a lack of redundancy in the Pacific, where fiber runs have about half the capacity found across the Atlantic. A number of companies are planning to rectify that -- including Verizon, who is working with a number of companies to run an 11,000 mile, five terabits per second (Tbps) cable (http://www.verizonbusiness.com/us/about/news/releases/release.xml?newsid=24233&mode=vzlong&lang=en&width=567&root=/us/about/news/releases/&subroot=release.xml&langlinks=off) from the United States (Oregon) directly to mainland China, Taiwan and South Korea.
Google too is involved in laying Pacific fiber as part of a consortium named Unity, that was formed with six international companies. The coalition is building a 6,200 mile, 7.68Tbps capable fiber run from Los Angeles to Chikura, located off the coast near Tokyo. Google today announced (http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080225_newcablesystem.html) they finalized the deal on the $300 million project. Google will then get access to that bandwidth at build cost.
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