Taming the Submarine Cable Dragons

Pacific Telecommunications Council meeting in Honolulu has brought many ideas out. Upgrading of submarine cables across pacific is one hot, warm, cold topic! Telecomtv's Commsday has written a very intriguing article that I this is worth reading.

After all, with much existing capacity still unlit in both the North and South Pacific, what is one to make of actual and proposed builds from the likes of Verizon, Tata Communications, Reliance, Pacnet, the Telekom Malaysia-helmed Asia America Gateway, Pipe Networks and Telstra? Plus plans for massive upgrades on existing cables such as Australia-Japan Cable and Pacific Crossing?

Milling around the conference halls at last week's Pacific Telecommunications Council meeting in Honolulu it's fair to say that no one was in denial about the fact the 2001 bubble was based on similar causative factors to those that exist now, nor the fact that there is trepidation that industry players will march steadfastly and damagingly into another one.

May be because;

By some estimates, Google –mainly as a result of the poularity of YouTube – now generates about quarter of the world's Internet traffic. Obviously, the likes of Yahoo and MSN must also account for meaningful shares, as must other significant servers of video content such as the big US entertainment corporations such as Fox.

To get a better idea and to watch out for Hidden Google with crouching cables.

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