undersea cable

Trans Pacific undersea cable completed

CNET Tech blog  Mon, 09/29/2008 - 6:04pm

Some of the world's leading phone companies have completed the construction of an undersea cable to provide more Internet capacity between the U.S. and parts of Asia.



 

Cuba and Venezuela to lay undersea Internet cable

CNET Tech blog  Fri, 07/18/2008 - 2:58pm

A new undersea fiber-optic cable being laid between Cuba and Venezuela will help provide high-speed Internet access to Cuban citizens by 2010.

Earlier this week, Wikileaks published documents that were signed in 2006 by officials in Cuba and Venezuela describing plans for the new undersea cable that will connect the ...



 

AT&T & NTT join trans-Pacific undersea cable consortium

CNET Tech blog  Tue, 03/25/2008 - 11:25am

The largest phone company in the U.S. AT&T and Japan's NTT said Tuesday that they joined an international consortium to build a new undersea network underneath the Pacific Ocean.

As more businesses expand internationally, phone companies such as AT&T are trying to diversify their networks to ...



 

Google makes its infrastructure move; Buys chunk of Trans-Pacifi...

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Tue, 02/26/2008 - 7:24am

Google on Tuesday announced that it is part of a consortium of six companies building a high-bandwidth undersea cable connecting the U.S. and Japan.

In a statement, Google said cable will cost about $300 million and give Google access to capacity of 7.68 terabits per second (Tbps).