From Tokyo to Los Angeles
At the risk of boring you, our readers, to death today with Internet Technology, here is another story to show you that the future has begun. A couple of days ago on November 1st, a cable laying vessel left Tokyo and another one left Los Angeles to meet each other somewhere in the middle of the Pacific on Veteran’s Day, November 11th, which will complete the 10,000 km (6,200 mile) long Unity fiber optic cable, funded by Google and five East Asian communication companies. The Japanese end of the cable is expected to be fused to the American end sometime around November 11th.
The cable, which was announced in February of 2008 at a cost of around $300 million USD, has the theoretical capacity of 7.68 Tbps, but will be set at a capacity of about 4.8 Tbps (supposedly equivalent to about 75 million simultaneous phone calls) during its initial use. When Unity begins full operation sometime early next year, it is projected to increase internet traffic capacity between the two regions by over 20%, a wonderful boost to transpacific relations!
In the fact that total capacity will not be executed for now, it shows again the law of economics Tommylee is referring to in another article today. Upgrading at a later date at minimal expense is a smart approach to maximizing resources and minimal expenditure.
The Unity cable plan was announced in February of 2008 at a projected cost of $300 million USD. In the wake of rapidly increasing traffic between the two regions of the world, the six companies aim to increase the overall transpacific cable capacity by at least 20% when it is set to start operation sometime in spring of 2010. Yutaka Yasuda, KDDI‚Äôs General Manager of Technology Sector, commented ‚ÄúThe project is of great importance to Japan and¬†America, as well as Asia.”
The cable will stretch from data centers in the Los Angeles area to KDDI’s data center in Chikura, just outside of Tokyo. From Japan, information can then be distributed to other countries in East Asia.
The cable-laying ship, operated by Japan’s NEC Corporation, is expected to meet up with another cable-laying ship from America, operated by Tyco Telecommunications, sometime around November 11th. The cable will then be fused together. Tests are scheduled to be conducted before Unity is brought in to operational use early next year.
The Unity cable is a joint operation by Bharti Airtel (India), Global Transit (Malaysia), Google (US), KDDI Corporation (Japan), Pacnet (Hong Kong), and SingTel (Singapore).
And that is where the economy and the future is heading no matter what isolation policies come from Washington DC.
It is also the area where employment is heading; high quality technicians, designer and operators that operate on a global scale. Get your education and no recession is ever going to get the best of you again.
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