The FCC gave Verizon a landing license to run a new Trans-Pacific...
The FCC gave Verizon a landing license to run a new Trans-Pacific Express submarine cable system in the U.S., the company announced Friday. Verizon said the “next-generation” undersea optical-cable system will directly link the U.S. and mainland China and…
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completion is expected by August, “in advance of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.” The cable is being built by a consortium of Verizon, China Telecom, China Netcom, China Unicom, Korea Telecom and Chunghwa Telecom of Taiwan. It can support the equivalent of 62 million simultaneous phone calls, more than 60 times the capacity of the cable that now links the U.S. and China, the company said. It will start out with a capacity of up to 1.28 terabits a second but that can be increased to 5.12 Tbps to support Internet growth and advanced applications. Verizon finished the cable landing site in Nedonna Beach, Ore., Nov. 14, under temporary FCC authority. The company now is building out network facilities in Oregon to connect the cable to Verizon’s domestic network, it said. At the same time, “numerous cable-laying ships are in the Pacific Ocean” at work. Verizon said it has stakes in more than 18 other cable systems in the Asia-Pacific region.