Singapore Telecommunications announced the completion of the TIS (Thailand-Indonesia-Singapore) cable network, a joint project with CAT Telecom Public Company Limited (CAT) of Thailand and PT. Telekommunikasi Indonesia Tbk (Telkom). The 1,100 km cable is linked into SingTel’s extensive submarine cable networks in Asia Pacific. It will begin to carry commercial traffic with immediate effect. The US$36 million consortium cable system has a capacity of 30 Gbps. NEC Corporation was contracted to build the TIS cable in November 2002.
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SingTel Completes Thailand-Indonesia-Singapore Cable
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You just read about Cable. Here is what it replaced:
Open-wire lines served 1880–1980. What ultimately replaced it?
Open-wire lines bare copper conductors bolted to glass insulators on wooden crossarms; wires were periodically transposed (crossed over) to cancel crosstalk and interference. Weather-exposed and very low capacity. Its job passed to Cable — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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