Fujitsu wins high-speed telecoms cable contract<\/p>\n
TOKYO (AFP): Japan's biggest computer company Fujitsu Ltd.
\nsaid Wednesday it had won a contract to build a US$645-million
\nhigh-speed telecommunications cable linking Singapore, Jakarta
\nand Sydney.<\/p>\n
New Zealand-based Nava Networks had contracted Fujitsu to
\nbuild the 9,000-kilometer (5,625-mile) undersea fiber-optic cable
\nby July 2002, the Japanese firm said in a statement.<\/p>\n
"The Nava-1 network will provide a high capacity strategic
\ndata connection between Singapore, Indonesia and Australia," the
\nstatement said.<\/p>\n
"It will also connect to international cables, effectively
\nclosing the southern hemisphere loop for international systems
\nbetween Europe, North America and Asia."<\/p>\n
The cable will have transmission capacity of 2.56 terabits
\n(2,560 gigabits) per second, equivalent to 40 million telephone
\nlines "or transmission of over 64 full-length feature films of
\nDVD quality video per second."<\/p>\n
"There is a strong demand for bandwidth in Southeast Asian and
\nAustralian telecommunications markets, and the demand is expected
\nto grow considerably in the next few years," said Nava Networks
\nsales director Brett O'Riley.<\/p>\n
The network would be crucial to telecoms firms, Internet
\nservice providers, e-commerce and web broadcasters, he said.<\/p>\n
A spokesman declined to confirm how much Fujitsu would earn
\nfrom the project, which has a total budget of 645 million
\ndollars.<\/p>\n
Fujitsu rival NEC Corp. has won contracts to build the control
\nsystems for two other Asia-Pacific telecoms cables currently
\nunder construction, which will earn it more than 1.1 billion
\ndollars.<\/p>\n
The bigger of the two, a 14,000-kilometer (8,750-mile) East
\nAsian system connecting China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia and
\nTaiwan, will also have capacity of 2.56 terabits per second.<\/p>",
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