New cable to link RI, S'pore

New cable to link RI, S'pore

SINGAPORE (DPA): A new submarine cable planned to link
Singapore, Indonesia and Australia will have the capacity to
handle 40 million simultaneous telephone calls, it was announced
on Friday.

Dubbed "Nava-1," the 9,000-km cable with a minimum design
capacity of holding 2,560 megabits per second of data will be the
largest linking the three countries, said Nava Networks
Development chief executive Charles Jarvie.

"Nava-1 effectively closes the loop with other major cable
systems that terminate in Singapore and Sydney," Jarvie said in a
statement published in The Straits Times.

Nava Networks is overseeing the building of Nava 1.
It will still be smaller than the 650 million U.S. dollar cable
being built by Singapore Telecom and India's Bharti Group which
has a world-record bandwidth of 8.4 terabits per second.