One more for today, the WSJ is carrying a brief story about the completion of the new trans-pacific fibre connection.
Sphere: Related ContentSEOUL — Six of the world’s biggest telecommunications companies completed construction of a high-speed fiber-optic cable across the Pacific Ocean, South Korea’s KT Corp. said Monday.
The 18,000-kilometer Trans-Pacific Express cable will link the U.S., China, South Korea and Taiwan, KT said.
The undersea cable will offer an alternative to the single low-capacity cable that provides the only direct link between mainland China and the U.S. Currently, most Web traffic between the two countries has to go through Hong Kong or Japan, at times causing transmission delays.
In December 2006, an earthquake off Taiwan’s coast severed several undersea data cables and severely disrupted communications around much of Asia, an incident that experts said underscored the need for more investment in network infrastructure in the region.