In Brief : Undersea Cable to Link Japan, U.S.
The government has approved the laying of the world’s longest optical fiber submarine cable across the Pacific by an international group of telecommunications firms, officials said today.
Officials at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications said the $338.5-million project is planned by International Digital Communications Inc., Cable and Wireless of Britain and Pacific Telecom Cable Inc. of the United States.
The project for the North Pacific Cable calls for the laying of a 5,909-mile fiber optical fiber submarine cable with a 17,010-circuit capacity between Miura on the Miura Peninsula about 37 miles south of Tokyo and Alaska via Pacific City, Oregon.
The cable between Pacific City and Alaska will have a capacity of 5,670 circuits, the Japanese partner IDC said.
“We have already chosen contractors and construction will start soon,” said a spokesman for IDC.
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