China-U.S. Undersea Cable Placed Into Service: First Undersea Cable to Directly Link China, U.S. Transmits 4M Simultaneous Calls.Business and Technology Editors BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 2000 China Telecom, one of the world's leading international telecommunications companies, today announced the start of service on one path of the planned China-U.S. Cable Network, the first undersea fiber optic cable Noun 1. fiber optic cable - a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light fibre optic cable transmission line, cable, line - a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power network to directly link the U.S. and China. The new system will be configured as a ring network. Landing points will include two in China, two each in the United States and Japan, and one each on Guam, Korea, and Taiwan. First announced in March 1997, the 16,000-mile system has a total capacity of 80 gigabits per second, or enough to simultaneously carry four million phone calls, making it eight times larger than the existing Trans-Pacific Cable Network (TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council, San Francisco, CA, www.tpc.org) An organization devoted to benchmarking transaction processing systems. In order to derive the number of transactions that can be processed in a given time frame, TPC benchmarks measure the total performance of 5). It is also one of the largest of its kind ever constructed (967,680 circuits). When fully completed, the ring will have cost over $1 billion to build. The network is operated by an international group of more than 30 telecommunications carriers, including China Telecom, Chunghwa Telecom, Concert (the global venture previously held by AT&T and British Telecom); Hongkong Telecom, Kokusai Denshin Denwa (Japan), Korea Telecom, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. Worldcom, NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform Worldwide Network Corp. (Japan), SBC Communications Inc., Singapore Telecom, Sprint Corp., Teleglobe USA, Telekom Malaysia and Telstra Corp. (Australia). Landing stations include Chongming and Shantou (China Telecom); Pusan (Korea Telecom); Chikura (KDD); Okinawa (NTT Worldwide Network Corp.); Tanguisson (Concert); Fangshan (Chunghwa Telecom); and Bandon and San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. (Concert). Alcatel Submarine Networks, Fujitsu Ltd., KDD Submarine Cable Systems, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Corp. and Tyco Submarine Systems Ltd. constructed the network. |
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