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Europe and Japan gains new billion dollar fiber link

posted onMarch 21, 2012
by l33tdawg

Two new projects to link Europe to Japan - one via the northern coast of Russia and the other via the North American coastline, will soon slash connection times between the two continents. 

The Russian Trans-Arctic Cable System (RUTACS) is a $1 billion project plans to lay 6 pairs of fiber with a 1.6 Tbit/s capacity per pair and hopes to reduce network latency to just under 80ms. Arctic Fibre's connection on the other hand, will similarly join England with Japan but this time following the North American coast, with several connections to Canada along the way. Total bandwidth between the countries will be 6.4 Tbit/s, with latencies between London and Tokyo of 168 ms.

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