Laying underwater "googlokabelya" began

Yesterday began laying the submarine cable on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The fact that Google will finance this project called Unity, was reported in February . This is the first time in history when an Internet company invests in intercontinental communication channels. And yesterday, contractors NEC and Tyco International began work.

A 10,000 km cable will connect the US Pacific coast with Japan. Together with Google co-owners of backbone will be another five telecommunications companies.

Initially, the backbone will consist of five pairs of fiber-optic cables, one of which will directly transmit traffic at a speed of 960 Gbit / s, and the other four are needed for a reserve. In the future, it is planned to add four more pairs of cables, so that the total bandwidth of the route will be from 4.8 Tbit / s to 7.68 Tbit / s
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New backbone should be commissioned in I quarter. 2010 By then, the bandwidth of other cables in the Pacific will also grow, so Unity will account for about 20% of all Pacific traffic.

For reference: here is a map of all the submarine cables on the planet.