February 26, 2008

Google Joins Undersea Trans-Pacific Fibre Optic Cable Consortium

Posted by User ImageNtas in Communications, Internet |

googleGoogle has teamed up with five other international communications companies to form a consortium that is developing a 10,000 km undersea fibre optic cable system that will connect United States and Japan. The cable system is to be scheduled to go live in early 2010. The purpose of the system is to boost the much needed capacity to sustain the increased growth in data and Internet traffic between United States and Asia.

The consortium is called Unity and its members  include Bharti Airtel (India), Global Transit (Malaysia), Google (US), KDDI (Japan), Pacnet (Hong Kong) and SingTel. The Unity cable system will be constructed and installed by NEC Corporation and Tyco Telecommunications. Google have denied that they are trying to compete with telecoms providers but more like creating an “ecosystem” for their services and architecture.

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