- Unity (submarine cable)
Unity is the code name for a Trans-Pacific
submarine communications cable in whichGoogle is investing with other partners. Grahame Lynch " [http://www.commsday.com/node/186 Google plans new undersea "Unity" cable across Pacific] ." "CommsDay.com ."September 21 2007 . Retrieved onSeptember 21 ,2007 .] The cable is planned to have "multi-terabit " capacity.On 26th February 2008 Google and five telecommunications operators (Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, KDDI,
PacNet , and SingTel) said in a joint statement that the 6,200-mile undersea fiber-optic cable, connecting the United States to Japan, will cost $300 million. [cite web|url=http://news.zdnet.com/2110-1035_22-6232088.html|title=Google, SingTel, and others to build submarine cable|date=2008-02-26|accessdate=2008-08-28] The cable will have 5 fiber pairs, each with a capacity of 960 Gbit/s, and will be expandable to 8. [cite web|url=http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080225_newcablesystem.html|title=Global Consortium to Construct New Cable System Linking US and Japan to Meet Increasing Bandwidth Demands|date=2008-02-26|accessdate=2008-08-28]The cable is being constructed by
NEC and Tyco Telecommunications (a subsidiary ofTyco Electronics ) [cite web|url=http://www.nec.com/global/prod/nw/submarine/news/2008/20080624.html|title=Tyco Telecommunications and NEC Begin Construction of Unity Cable System|date=2008-06-24|accessdate=2008-08-28] .The
cable landing point s are:
* Chikura, Awa District,Chiba Prefecture ,Japan .
*Los Angeles ,USA References
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