SUBMARINE FIBER OPTICS
China-US Cable Network to Begin Operations on Monday
Forty-five telecommunications carriers from around the world will kick off
Monday the operations of a vast underwater cable network linking China,
Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and the United States, KDD Corp. KDD, AT&T
Corp. of the United States, and China Telecom are among the carriers.
The 20,000-km fiber optic cable, called the China-US Cable Network,
traverses the Pacific Ocean from Chiba Prefecture in Japan to the U.S.
west coast city of Bandon, after linking China, South Korea, Taiwan and
Guam with Japan. The cable will provide the telecom carriers with an
additional combined capacity of 80 Gbps.
They are currently expanding the overall capacity of the network by adding
another 10,000-km cable linking Guam with the US west coast city of San
Luis Obispo, and then with Bandon. In addition, KDD is building the
Japan-US Cable, another underwater fiber optic cable linking Japan and the
US, with the project expected to be completed by the year-end. |
