Google: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea?
Google has joined a consortium of six companies that have agreements to build a high-bandwidth sub-sea fiber optic cable linking the United States and Japan. The construction of the new Trans-Pacific infrastructure will cost an estimated $300 million, according to a Tuesday press release.
The new cable system named Unity will address broadband demand by providing capacity to sustain the growth in data and Internet traffic between Asia and America. The TeleGeography Global Bandwidth Report showed that trans-Pacific bandwidth demand grew by nearly 64 percent annually between 2002 and 2007 and is expected to continue to climb through 2013.
The consortium is a joint effort by Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, Google, KDDI Corporation, Pacnet and SingTel. Unity selected NEC Corporation and Tyco Telecommunications to construct and install the system. That work will begin immediately, with initial capacity targeted for the first quarter of 2010.
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