Home / News

Rollout of Transpacific Undersea Cable Completed

Six of the world's largest telecommunications companies are reported to have completed the construction of a high-speed undersea telecommunications cable system across the Pacific. The fiber-optic cable, called Trans-Pacific Express, will directly link the U.S., China, South Korea and Taiwan, according to the Dow Jones news service. Verizon, one of the partners in the project, has said that the new cable system would be able to handle the equivalent of 62 million simultaneous phone conversations. This would be more than 60 times the overall capacity of China-U.S. existing cable, capable of handling equivalent of 1 million simultaneous phone conversations.

Read full story: CNN Money

Related topics: Access Providers, Broadband, Telecom

WEEKLY WRAP — Get CircleID's Weekly Summary Report by Email:

Comments

Broken link to full story Stephane Bortzmeyer  –  Sep 30, 2008 1:37 PM PDT

CNN says it's a 404.

To post comments, please login or create an account.

Related Blogs

Related News

Topics

Industry Updates – Sponsored Posts

Nominum Launches Comprehensive Suite of DNS-Based Security Solutions for Russian Service Providers

Nominum Sets New Record for Network Speed and Efficiency

Implementing a Cyber-Security Code of Conduct: Real-Life Lessons From Australia (Webinar)

Neustar and University of Illinois Launch the Neustar Innovation Center

Australian ISP iiNet selects ARI Registry Services to Help It Apply for and Operate .iinet TLD

Nominum Launches World's First Purpose-Built Suite of DNS‐Based Solutions for Mobile Operators

Verisign to Award New Infrastructure Research Grants

Breaking the DNS: Another Look at How SOPA Could Be Destructive

Neustar Names Joe Pasqua to Head Neustar Labs

President Obama Names Neustar President and CEO Lisa Hook to NSTAC

Verisign CEO to Serve on President Obama's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee

72 Confirmed Talks - If You're Attending, Now is the Time to Register

eComm 2009: Discussions on Restructuring Global Telecoms

eComm 2009 Signs Skype As Headline Sponsor Of European Conference & Awards Debut Event

Nominum CEO: Commercial vs. Open Source - Let Customers Choose

Ben Scott and Free Press in the Network Age

Supernova Interview: David Isenberg

Wendy Seltzer Interview: How Law Impacts the Network Age

Jon Peha, Chief Technologist, FCC, on the National Broadband Plan

Supernova Interview: JP Rangaswami

Hot Topics

Verisign

Security

Sponsored by
Verisign
Neustar UltraDNS

DNS

Sponsored by
Neustar UltraDNS
Nominum

IPv6

Sponsored by
Nominum
Afilias

DNS Security

Sponsored by
Afilias
dotMobi

Mobile

Sponsored by
dotMobi
Minds + Machines

Top-Level Domains

Sponsored by
Minds + Machines