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To: Bernard Levy who wrote (2005)	9/3/1998 2:35:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Telecom operators in $1.5 billion cable project 06:49 09-03-98 PARIS (Reuters) - A consortium of telecom operators has signed a $1.5 billion project for a new fiber-optic cable link between Europe and the United States in order to cut waiting time on the World Wide Web. More than 50 telecommunications operators signed contracts Wednesday for the TAT-14 cable that will have a capacity of 640 Gigabits and could carry about 7.7 million simultaneous telephone calls. Some 80 percent of its capacity will be allocated to Internet and multimedia traffic. The TAT-14 Cable network is a 1997 initiative of 11 carriers -- AT&T Corp., British Telecom, Cable & Wireless Plc, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, KPN Telecom NV, MCI Corp., Pacific Gateway Exchange, Sprint Corp., Swisscom and Telia. Japan's Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co. Ltd. unit KDD Submarine Cable Systems Inc. is the main supplier of the project. The TAT-14 cable will link five European countries -- Germany, England, Denmark, France and the Netherlands -- with the United States. It will span 22,000 miles and is expected to be completed and in service by the end of 2000. The new system, which is a ring network, will utilize the latest advances in Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH), Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology and will consist of four pairs of optical fiber cable. The new system will represent 64 times the capacity of the original TAT-12/TAT-13 Cable Nethwork that was put into service in September 1996. The terminal landing stations for the new cable will include Manasquan, N.J., and Tuckerton, N.J., Widemouth in Britain, Saint-Valery-en-Caux in France, Katwijk in the Netherlands, Norden in Germany and Blaabjerg in Denmark. France Telecom said it was investing $118 million in the project.