Unity Cable System or EAC-Pacific is a 9620-km linear Trans-Pacific submarine cable system with direct cable route linking the U.S. and Japan. Unity represents a new type of consortium, born out of potentially competing systems, to emerge as a system within a system, offering ownership and management of individual fiber pairs.
Cable System:
- Unity, EAC-Pacific
Cable Length:
- 9,620 Km
Design Capacity:
- 7.68 Tbps (initial)
- Eight optical fiber pairs, each operating at 96x10 Gbps DWDM, upgraded to 7.4Tbps per FP in 2023.
- Pacnet shares two dedicated fiber pairs to build their own trans-pacific system, named as EAC Pacific
Ready for Service Date:
- April 1, 2010
Investment Type:
- Consortium
Initial Investment:
- US$ 300 million
Owner(s):
- Bharti Airtel
- Global Transit
- KDDI Corp.
- Pacnet
- Singtel
Landing Stations:
- Chikura, Japan, KDDI
- One Wilshire, Los Angeles, USA, carrier neutral colocation
Vendors:
- NEC
- Tyco Telecommunications
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