Bharti-partnered undersea cable linking Japan and US launched
By IANSThursday, April 1, 2010
NEW DELHI - India’s top telecom operator Bharti Airtel Thursday said an international consortium, of which the company is a part, has launched an undersea cable connecting Japan and the west coast of the United States.
The other partners of the consortium are Global Transit, Google, KDDI Corporation, Pacnet and SingTel.
The 9,620 km submarine cable — Unity cable system — provides direct connectivity between Chikura, located on the coast near Tokyo, and West Coast network points-of-presence in Los Angeles, Palo Alto and San Jose.
“Bharti Airtel’s investments in Unity is part of its plans to expand it global network through its ownership of the i2i submarine cable system and consortium ownership in other global undersea cable systems like SEA-ME-WE 4, EIG, I-ME-WE and AAG,” the company said in a statement.
Through the deployment of state-of-the-art submarine cable technology, the five fibre pair cable system will deliver up to 4.8 terabytes per second of bandwidth across the Pacific, with each fibre pair having a capacity of up to 960 Gigabytes per second, it said.
First announced in February 2008, the cable system was built at a cost of around $300 million.
