Friday, March 19, 2010

Google�s Pacific submarine cable "Unity" nearly complete

-- 7.68 Terabits/s for growing Asian market
-- $300 million cost (from consortium of six companies)
-- 10,000 km length (Chikura in Japan to Los Angeles)
-- Increases capacity across Pacific by 20 percent
-- Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing technology (960Gbps per fibre-optic pair with a maximum of eight fiber pairs)
-- construction time: two years

Story here.

Tom Kelchner

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