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To: craig crawford who wrote (150)	8/28/1997 12:46:00 AM
From: craig crawford	of 1219

It seems like just about every fiber-optic network installed will be using WDM now: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Trans-Pacific cable could bring lower rates Hansol Telecom of South Korea plans to install and operate a high-capacity fiber-optic communications cable across the Pacific Ocean. The Asia Pacific Information Infrastructure Cable (APII) will directly connect Korea and Japan with North America. APII will be the first trans-Pacific fiber-optic communications cable to originate in Korea, and is intended to serve as an Asia Pacific regional leg of the emerging Global Information Infrastructure (GII). Construction costs are estimated at $750 million to $850 million. Initial plans call for the cable to originate near Keojo, Korea, terminate in Chiba, Japan, and continue on to two coastal cities on the west coast of the United States. The oriental termination points will seamlessly interconnect with the FLAG cable, allowing direct interconnection by carriers in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. "The APII will break the dominance of AT&T and KDD (Japan's largest international carrier) over trans-Pacific cable traffic," says Hansol Telecom CEO Jin W. Soh. He expects to see extensive competition in international telecommunications because of the implementation of the WTO Agreement of Basic Telecommunications Services (GBT Agreement). Soh predicts that East Asian economies will become the largest single block economy in the world, surpassing Western Europe and North America. Asia's share of the world's GDP has grown to nearly 30%. Intensifying trade and economic activity in the Asia Pacific region is expected to generate increasing demand for trans-Pacific transmission capacity. U.S. businesses and consumers may see lower prices and enhanced services on both sides of the Pacific as a result of competition between existing carriers and APII. APII's ring configuration will reduce the risk of potential outages associated with natural disasters. APII will use optical transmission technologies including synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) compatibility, optical amplifier (OA) and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). The cable will offer a total transmission capacity of 80 Gbps, providing 970,000 voice-grade circuits simultaneously. Its loop configuration will provide self-restoration capabilities.

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