KDDI and Google laid the optical submarine cable between Japan and the United States and the influence of YouTube transfer increase is also

It seems that six companies such as KDDI and Google decided to launch an optical submarine cable with a total extension of 10,000 km connecting Japan and the United States.

Background is that there is an increase in the amount of transfer due to increased browsing of Google's umbrella video sharing site "YouTube".

Details are as below.
KDDI Company Information: News Releases> Concluding Cooperative Construction Agreement between Japan and the United States Optical Submarine Cable Network "Unity"

According to this release, KDDI has concluded a joint construction agreement with Bharti Airtel Limited, Global Transit, Google, Pacnet and SingTel, an optical submarine cable "Unity" connecting Chiba prefecture of Japan and Los Angeles of Japan.

The total extension is about 10,000 km, and the line capacity is 7.68 Tbps corresponding to about 128 million lines in terms of telephone lines, and the operation start time will be January to March 2010. The total construction cost is about 32 billion yen.

Google enters into international communications KDDI and other US and Japan submarine cable laying - MSN Sankei News

According to this article, it is the first time that Google enters the telecommunications business, and in the background it is laying in the Pacific Ocean due to an increase in the number of users browsing "YouTube" subsidiary video sharing site from Japan and Asia There is a goal to ease the problem occupying the great weight of traffic of submarine cable.