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New Submarine Cable Planned Between SE Asia and US

Posted by Zonk on from the keeping-us-in-the-loop dept.

el_flynn writes "BusinessWeek is reporting on a new submarine cable system that will link South East Asia directly with the USA. Designated Asia-America Gateway (AAG), the project will involve a consortium of 17 international telcos, including AT&T Inc, India's Bharti AirTel, BT Global Network Services, CAT Telekom (Thailand), Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc (Philippines), Indosat (Indonesia) and Pacific Communications Pte Ltd (Cambodia). Led by Telekom Malaysia Berhad, the project is slated for completion in 2008, where 20,000km of cables will be providing a capacity of up to 1.92 Terabits per second of data bandwidth. Interestingly, the fibre-optic cable system will be taking a different route from many existing cables to avoid quake-prone areas and a repeat of the disruption to Asian web access caused by a tremor off Taiwan four months ago."

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  1. Re:Different routes hardly "interesting" by psaunders · · Score: 5, Funny

    But let's not forget, it's about improving speed as well as reliability. With this high-bandwidth cable, it will take users in SE Asia much less time to download submarines from the US.

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  2. That's funny...pfft... by djupedal · · Score: 2, Funny

    "BusinessWeek is reporting on a new submarine cable system that will link South East Asia directly with the USA."

    I'm in southern China, and the way I heard it was "...a new submarine cable system that will link the USA directly with South East Asia."

  3. Re:a couple questions by British · · Score: 4, Funny

    Keep in mind light speed is slow and latency is an issue esp if we are talking geostationary orbit, which

    But you know most of the data is going to be spam anyway, and you don't need low ping times for that data.

  4. Re:The US navy is ready! by modecx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Interesting, however, I think it would have been more apt were this ship named USS Richard Nixon.

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  5. Re:The US navy is ready! by arivanov · · Score: 3, Funny

    No need. Cable goes through Hawaii anyway and is under part American ownership by surprise surprise AT&T. Which we all know does not bend over to NSA and USA govt at their slightest whim even on internal in-the USA communications. Cough... Cough...

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  6. Re:Pictures? by TubeSteak · · Score: 2, Funny

    And no, it's unlikely you could dive down and splice in, for this reason, not to mention the more technical issues.
    The technology exists to do just that, but the Federal Government classified it all.

    They wanted a monopoly on underwater fiber snooping ;)
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  7. Re:Pictures? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Could I go snorkeling someplace and see it when it comes up on shore? How to they protect it from terrorists with scuba gear?
    What is it with the "terrorist" paranoia? A terrorist's goal, by definition, is to spread terror. Cutting a trans-oceanic cable would be inconvenient and probably costly, sure, but I hardly think it would cause mass panic. I can't picture people running down the street, arms flailing, screaming, "THE CABLE'S BEEN CUT!"