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To: pat mudge who wrote (2824)	9/19/2000 2:23:19 PM
From: riposte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3951

Paving the underwater expressway Hi Pat - Always nice to see articles such as this! :-)) Steve Paving the underwater expressway Carriers plan to put record amounts of fiber and cable into undersea networks. But supply constraints could slow construction of these new information highways. The amount of fiber-optic undersea cable that carriers plan to install over the next three years will more than double all existing undersea cable installed since the mid to late 1980s, when this type of cable was introduced. Leading this infrastructure explosion, new global carriers that did not exist 10 years ago, including Global Crossing, 360networks, Level 3, Ty Com, and FLAG Telecom, are now requiring thousands of kilometers of fiber cable to build their high-bandwidth submarine networks. By the time these five carriers have finished installing their infrastructure-or at least what they have announced to date-they will have deployed close to 340,000 km of undersea cable. To put this amount into perspective, the worldwide installed base at year-end 1999 was approximately 530,000 km. And the cabling these new carriers plan to string around the world is not quite 60% of what has been announced for all installations worldwide over the next three years. [REMAINING TEXT DELETED] FULL TEXT @ fiber-exchange.com