Unity Submarine Cable System Overview

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
• Google
• KDDI Corp.
• Pacnet
• Singtel

Landing Stations:

• Chikura, Japan, KDDI
• One Wilshire, Los Angeles, USA, carrier neutral colocation

Vendors:

• NEC
• Tyco Telecommunications

Unity Cable Map: