Bharti Airtel Participates in a Consortium with International Companies

[Pathik]

Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom services provider, has executed an agreement with five leading international companies to build a high-bandwidth undersea fiber-optic cable linking Asia and the United States. The construction of the new cable system will provide the much needed capacity to sustain the unprecedented growth in data and Internet traffic between Asia and the United States. The cable system is named “Unity” and will cost an estimated US$ 300 million.

Construction of the system will begin immediately, with initial capacity targeted to be available in the first quarter of 2010.

Mr. David Nishball, President, Airtel Enterprise Services said in a company press release, “The partnership in the Unity consortium is yet another important step in our journey towards meeting our customer’s complete global communication needs. This investment is in line with our strategy to extend our international footprint across the globe to provide seamless connectivity to our customers through partnerships with leading global companies. The Unity cable system will address the demand for increased bandwidth between Asia and US as more and more services migrate to an online environment. This partnership will also provide alternate routes to meet the demands of our customers for increased levels of network resiliency and redundancy.”

The five other companies involved in this project are Global Transit Ltd. (Malaysia), Google (US), KDDI Corporation (Japan), Pacnet (Singapore) and SingTel (Singapore). This is a new type of consortium, born out of potentially competing systems. This system offers ownership and management of individual fiber pairs as it acts as a system within a system. The consortium has selected NEC Corporation and Tyco Telecommunications to construct and install the system.

The Unity cable system will initially increase Trans-Pacific lit cable capacity by about 20 percent. Further, it has the potential to add up to 7.68 Terabits per second (Tb/s) of bandwidth across the Pacific. It will provide connectivity between Chikura, located off the coast near Tokyo, to Los Angeles and other West Coast network points of presence. Unity will be seamlessly connected to other cable systems at Chikura, which will enhance the connectivity into Asia.



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[naveen_reloaded]

more bandwidth i nthier hand ... more control .. and eventually more MONEY...

and dont worry we the are one who`s gona pay for a merc and get a maruti....

[The Conqueror]

hoping that this cable wont be cut
thanks for the news update