Global alliance to build trans-Pacific Unity cable

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01/03/2008

In a first for a search company, Google has got together with five telecoms giants, India’s Bharti Airtel, Hong Kong and Singapore-based Pacnet, Kuala Lumpur-based Global Transit, Japan’s KDDI Corp, and Singapore’s SingTel to build an undersea cable linking the US and Japan. This aims to cater to the anticipated increase in internet traffic between the two countries. Carriers have been scrambling to upgrade their existing cables or planning new ones as bandwidth demand has soared. Trans-Pacific bandwidth demand has grown at a compounded annual growth rate of 63.7 percent between 2002 and 2007. Trans-Pacific internet traffic shot up 41 percent between mid-2006 and mid-2007.

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