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owala canada orks ASN has won the contract to supply the US$350 million Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable, scheduled for completion in 2021 that will connect Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tokelau, Kiribati and the United States.Southern Cross says Next will add 72 terabits per second of capacity to the 20 terabi
owala tumbler ts of potential capacity on current Southern Cross systems. It will be a four pair system with branching units and optical add drop multiplexing technology for connections to Fiji, Tokelau and Kiribati. The founding shareholders Spark New Zealand, Singtel and Verizon Business were joined in December by Telstra, which took a 25 percent stake. Southern Cross NEXT will be the largest capacity, lowest latency link between the US West coast and Sydney and Auckland, providing Australia and New Zealand, the largest capacity markets in the South Pacific region, with a powerful solution, the company said. Southern Cross said Next would also add key interconnecting infrastructure for the South Pacific, providing a reliable direct information pipeline to connect those participating nations ndash; Fiji, Tokelau and Kiribati ndash; to the world, and greater options to the existing cables from Vanuatu, Samoa and Tonga connecting to Southern Cross today in Fiji. ASN will supply its WSS reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer underwater repeaters tha
stanley romania t, Southern Cross says, will ensure the cable is compatible with future generations o Qvlm What Google s next Nexus 7 needs
Leading makers of Global System for Mobile Communications GSM phones and operators of wireless networks last week announced guidelines to provide more consistent handset features and services in next-generation devices. Members of the new Mobile Services Initiative group include the worldrsquo three largest handset makers
polene bag : Ericsson Inc., Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. Operators supporting the effort include ATT Wireless and Voicestream Wireless, which depend on GSM and its next-generation networ
polene store k, General Packet Radio Services GPRS . Part of the motivation behind the effort, which was coordinated by the GSM Association in London, is to move beyond perceived usability problems with Wireless Application Protocol WAP phones and to enhance
polene wireless browsing of the Web, said Mark Smith, the associationrsquo director of communications. In its guidelines, the association said it also wants to replicate the success of Tokyo-based NTT DoCoMo Inc.rsquo iMode service, which is known for its ease of use. Analysts said any set of guidelines that will provide consistency for users is welcome. GPRS phone makers and operators definitely need more continuity as new services roll out, said Peter Firstbrook, an analyst at Meta Group Inc. in Stamford, Conn. Today, users canrsquo;t count on phones having consistent displays ndash; the size of the display and the number of lines of text or characters usually varies from model to model ndash; much
