Pacnet announces EAC Pacific now ready for service

Telecommunications provider Pacnet today announced that EAC Pacific its newest subsea cable linking Japan and the United States, is now ready for service after months of intensive testing.

Bill Barney, Chief Executive Officer of the telecommunications service provider explained, “EAC Pacific delivers on the first phase of our network infrastructure expansion strategy by taking our Pacnet cable network across the Pacific. Our next phase of expansion will be focused on extending our cable network westwards towards India through West Asia Crossing (WAC), as well as southwards towards Australia.”

Wilfred Kwan, Chief Technology Officer at the telecommunication provider explained, “With EAC Pacific ready for service and connected to our pan-Asian EAC-C2C cable network, our customers can now benefit from direct, multi-terabit connectivity between Asia to North America on a single Pacnet network and experience better network performance, reliability and control.”

“This will also enhance our suite of industry leading networking solutions including Pacnet Lightning, our connectivity solution that delivers the highest performance, lowest latency network connections that enable financial institutions to execute trades faster,” added Mr Kwan.

EAC Pacific comprises two of the five fiber pairs on the Unity cable system built by a consortium of six international companies including Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, Google, KDDI Corporation, Pacnet and SingTel. The Unity cable system spans 9,620 km across the Pacific Ocean and connects Chikura, Japan, to Los Angeles. Construction of the Unity cable system was first announced in February 2008 and was constructed at a cost of around US$300 million.

EAC Pacific provides up to 1.92 Terabits per second (Tbps) of capacity across the Pacific and is connected to Pacnet’s pan-Asian cable system EAC-C2C at Chikura. EAC Pacific is operated independently by Pacnet, Unity’s largest investor.