New Delhi: Bharti Airtel, along with five other international telecom companies, has executed a pact to build a high-bandwidth undersea fibre-optic cable linking Asia and the US. The construction of the new cable system, known as Unity, will cost an estimated $300 million. Though this cable will not touch Indian shores, traffic from the country can be taken on Bharti i2i network up to Singapore and then routed through the new cable. The Unity consortium is a collective effort by Bharti Airtel (India), Global Transit Ltd (Malaysia), Google (US), KDDI Corporation (Japan), Pacnet (Singapore) and SingTel (Singapore). This investment is in line with its strategy to extend its international footprint across the globe to give seamless connectivity to our customers via partnerships with leading global companies. The Unity consortium has selected NEC Corporation and Tyco Telecommunications to construct and install the system. The Unity cable system will give connectivity between Chikura, located off the coast near Tokyo, to Los Angeles and other West Coast network points of presence.
Bharti has two international landing stations in Chennai those links two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Singapore and Europe. The company has also recently undertaken a series of plans to extend its international footprint and has joined the Asia America Gateway cable system to give the much-needed diversity against traditional routes to the US, mainly carrying broadband traffic.
Bharti has two international landing stations in Chennai those links two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Singapore and Europe. The company has also recently undertaken a series of plans to extend its international footprint and has joined the Asia America Gateway cable system to give the much-needed diversity against traditional routes to the US, mainly carrying broadband traffic.
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