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China,Malaysia,Singapore,United States : Five TELECOM FIRMS & Google teams up to construct Trans-Pacific Cable System, valued at $300 million [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) As per the report, the six leading firms : China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, Google, KDDI and SingTel announced that they are ready to construct as well as run a new Trans-Pacific cable system, FASTER with NEC Corporation as a system provider. This plan would cost nearly USD $300 million and it would nexus the United States to two landing areas in Japan. By the 2Q of 2016, cable network is scheduled to be ready-for-service. FASTER would feature the latest high-quality 6-fiber-pair cable and optical transmission technologies, with an initial design capacity of 60Tb/s (100Gb/s x 100 wavelengths x 6 fiber-pairs), as per the report. Woohyong Choi, Chairman of the FASTER executive committee stated, "FASTER is one of a few hundred submarine telecommunications cables connecting various parts of the world. These cables collectively form an important infrastructure that helps run global Internet and communications. The consortium partners are glad to work together to add a new cable to our global infrastructure. The FASTER cable system has the largest design capacity ever built on the Trans-Pacific route, which is one of the longest routes in the world. The agreement announced today will benefit all users of the global Internet. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |