Here is a more recent one with AT&T involved. I don't belong to this field, could you gurus please tell where Ascend would possibly be working on in this backbone construction?
(16) US-China Fiber Cable Project Construction Deal Signed
[CND, 12/12/97] A group of fourteen international telecommunications
carriers has signed contracts worth $950 million for the construction of a
30,000 km undersea fiber optic network that will link China, South Korea,
Japan, and the United States, Newsbytes reported. The new China-US cable
will be the first direct cable link between China and the United States.
The system, which is scheduled to enter service by December 30, 1999, will
be equally owned and operated by a group of 14 international carriers,
including Telstra Corp.(Australia), Telekom Malaysia, Teleglobe USA,
Sprint Corp., Singapore Telecom (SingTel), SBC Communications Inc., NTT
Worldwide Network Corp. (Japan), MCI Communications Corp., Korea Telecom,
Kokusai Denshin Denwa (KDD, Japan), Hong Kong Telecom, Chunghwa Telecom
(South Korea), China Telecom, and the AT&T Corp.
AT&T will operate the Brandon, San Luis Obispo and Tanguisson landing
points; China Telecom the Chongming and Shantou sites; Korea Telecom the
Pusan site; Chunghwa Telecom the Fangshan link; KDD the Chikura landing
point; and NTT Worldwide the Okinawa center.
The eastern and southern legs will be constructed by Tyco Submarine
Systems Ltd. (TSSL), Alcatel Submarine Networks, and Fujitsu Limited,
which includes the world's longest direct undersea cable at 12,500 km.
KDD Submarine Cable Systems (KDD-SCS) and NEC Corporation (NEC) will be in
charge of the constructions of the northern and western segments.
The network will be a four-fiber pair system, which will have a record
maximum capacity of 80 gigabits per second and 967,680 circuits,
equivalent to the bandwidth needed to carry four million simultaneous
telephone conversations. Technologies such as Wavelength Division
Multiplexing (WDM), Optical Amplification, and Synchronous Digital
Hierarchy (SDH) will be employed on the system. (Ray ZHANG)
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