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February 9-11, 2010

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Tyco, NEC Start Cable System Build

07/21/2008

Tyco Telecommunications (U.S.) Inc. and NEC Corporation commenced construction on the Unity Cable System, a high-bandwidth trans-Pacific, optical submarine cable system that will link Los Angeles, U.S. to Chikura, Japan. The contract for the project was signed on February 23, 2008, between the Unity Consortium, comprising of six purchasers, Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, Google, KDDI, Pacnet and SingTel and suppliers Tyco Telecommunications and NEC Corporation.
“Tyco Telecommunications is proud to be a system supplier for the Unity Cable System, a state-of-the-art long haul system that will provide additional connectivity and capacity between regions of the world that increasingly require more bandwidth,” said Bill Marra, General Manager of Tyco Telecommunications.
The Unity Cable System is a multi-fiber pair system, with each fiber pair capable of carrying up to 960 Gigabits of data per second. Tyco Telecommunications and NEC will each manufacture a portion of the undersea system. Tyco Telecommunications will install the undersea cable from the U.S. end, and NEC will install the undersea cable from the Japan end. The cables will be interfaced on the seabed of the Pacific Ocean.