New Submarine Cable Planned Between SE Asia and US

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."

Comments

Re:a couple questions

[s800]

1- Find em with an OTDR. Pull it up, fix it.

2- C

Re:Co-operation to decentralise the internet!

[dwarfsoft]

I ask, where is Australia's Telstra / Bigpond in all of this?

Same place they have always been: hiding in their money bin with Scrooge McDuck waiting for a real rival in the local Broadband Internet market to take them on. They haven't done ANYTHING in recent years, not until Labor unveiled their plan for a National Broadband Network (that they would probably not be party to).

All they do is fail to innovate and then threaten to sue people who want to use "their" infrastructure to build a better network. I can't believe people let the Government sell the whole Monopoly off. That's what happens when you get majority control of the upper and lower house.

Personally, I am wondering why there aren't other Australian 'telcos' trying to get control of a feed into this Country in order to take control of the domestic market. Hopefully given some time they will have enough money to build some competition aganist Telstra in the Broadband market.