PacNet (formerly Asia Global Crossing), the largest submarine cable telecommunications company in Asia Pacific, partnered with SubCom, the contracted international supplier of undersea communications systems and services, to do this job. PacNet and SubCom will turn on the power for data flow March 20.
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FRANCISCO Laying down an ocean-crossing fiber optic
data transmission cable is hardly for the faint of heart or body. We’re talking
about months at sea in unpredictable open-ocean conditions to quot;pay
out quot; a 1-inch-thick fiber optic cable capable of transporting billions of
informat…