www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Google along with Asian telco’s KDDI, Bharti Airtel, Reliance has planned to built largest ever subsea cable extending up to 8,300-km with an investment of $400 million (€271m). The cable will initially link
Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, and Japan

The 6-fiber-pair Asia-Pacific Japan Cable will have a design capacity of 17 Tbps and will be upgradeable to 23 Tbps. Philippines’ Globe Telecom, cable system operator Network i2i – a JV between Bharti Airtel and SingTel – and Telemedia Pacific, which operates in Hong Kong and Indonesia are the other initiating partners while more companies have intended to participate once the project gets off the ground.

The cable should be operational by the second quarter of 2012. If the project starts, it will become Google’s second cable investment.