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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