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Japan, Russia to Link Telecommunications Networks

Martyn Williams writes on CIO.com:

Japan and Russia plan to link their telecommunications networks via a new undersea fiber optic cable, they said late Tuesday. The cable, which is expected to be in place by the end of this year, avoids the area south of Taiwan in which many cables suffered damage after a powerful earthquake last year.

The Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System (HSCS) will, as its name suggests, connect Ishikari on Hokkaido, which is the northernmost of Japan’s main islands, to Nevelsk, in Russia’s Sakhalin.

A memorandum of understanding to build the cable was signed on Tuesday in Tokyo by Japan’s NTT Communications and Russia’s TransTeleCom.

posted by Fergie @ 2/28/2007 12:26:00 PM