Tycom (the former Tyco Submarine systems)announces win:
msnbc.com
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TyCom lands $171-million contract for Australia-Japan system
8/11/2000 NEC Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) has awarded TyCom Ltd. (Pembroke, Bermuda) a contract worth $171 million to provide undersea cable and optical amplifiers as part of the Australia-Japan Submarine Cable System (AJC). AJC will connect Australia, Guam, and Japan, and have a total length of 12,000 km. TyCom will provide undersea cable for the entire system, and optical amplifiers for the Australia to Guam segments.
Initial construction and cable survey work has already begun, and the system is expected to be operational in the third quarter of 2001. AJC will provide up to 640 Gbit/s of undersea capacity to a shareholder group of international carriers consisting of Telstra, Japan Telecom, NTT Com, AT&T/BT Concert, Teleglobe, and MCI WorldCom. This capacity is more than 500 times as great as currently available between Australia and Japan.
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Good article on Ciena's and Tellium's switch plans:
eetimes.com |
