Unity is a new multi-terabit transpacific cable system with Google's taste :-D As you can see at this post, I've misunderstood that EAC Pacific would completely be a new transpac cable. It shall actually be a part of the Unity cable. To my knowledge, there are currently three competing parties offering new Asia-US connections:
Some public information about Unity:
Unity Route Map (Source/Courtesy Unity, NEC corp.)
- Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) : Verizon's Taste :-)
- Asia America Gateway (AAG)
- Unity : PACNET, Google etc.
Some public information about Unity:
- It connects Los Angeles, US to Chikura, Japan
- Length : approx. 10,000km
- Contractors: NEC Corp. + Tyco Telecommunications; the contract was signed on February 23, 2008.
- Members of Unity consortium : Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, Google, KDDI, Pacnet and SingTel
- CAPEX: approx. USD 300 mn
- RFS: Q1/2010
- Capacity: up to 8 FPs (recently deployed only 5 ?; 2 FP owned by PACNET); 96 Lambdas @ 10 Gbps (design); lit ?
Unity Route Map (Source/Courtesy Unity, NEC corp.)
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Google's subsea ambitions expand
On the heels of its investment in the Unity trans-Pacific submarine cable, Google is working with a consortium of carriers planning to build an intra-Asian submarine cable system. The new cable, dubbed the Southeast Asia Japan Cable (SJC), would link Unity's landing station in Japan to Guam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. The cable is still in the planning stage, and the consortium has yet to announce a supply contract. 'Given the current flurry of undersea cables under construction, the SJC cable will probably not be ready for service until 2011 at the earliest,' said TeleGeography analyst Alan Mauldin.
The members of the SJC consortium are nearly identical to Unity with a few exceptions. Companies that are participating in both consortia are Google, Bharti, SingTel, KDDI and Global Transit. Pacnet, which will control two fibre pairs on Unity, already operates the EAC-C2C intra-Asian mesh cable system and consequently is not involved with SJC. Globe Telecom of the Philippines and TOT of Thailand are also members of SJC and will be the landings parties for the cable in their respective countries.
http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=24744
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