Alaska Northstar Cable
On July 9th, 1998, WCI Cable, Inc. entered into an historic cooperative agreement with Oregon fishermen outlining the duties and responsibilities of each in relation to a new fiber-optic communications cable to be laid in the Pacific Ocean just north of Rockaway Beach, Oregon.

Under the terms of that agreement, the Oregon Fishermen’s Undersea Cable Committee had representatives aboard the cable ship Maersk Fighter and the ROV ship Kigoria.

Committee representatives observed nearly all phases of cable laying and burial, on both the continental shelf and slope out to approximately 820 fathoms water depth.

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Southern Cross Cable
The Southern Cross Cable Network, whose undersea section is approximately 29,000km in length and consisting of two separate cables configured in three self-healing rings, was placed into service in November 2000. Originally designed to deliver 120 Gigabits per second of fully protected capacity, Southern Cross has now been upgraded to 240 Gigabits of lit capacity and the network has the potential to increase to 480 Gigabits as capacity demand growth requires.

The network is fast enough to transfer a 3km-high stack of typed documents or eight full-length motion pictures every second, or of simultaneously transporting a million independent video-streams at DVD quality. With a one-way transmission delay of 70 milliseconds (7/100 of a second) between the US West Coast and Sydney, Australia, the Southern Cross Cable is the fastest most direct connection between the two nations. The cable makes use of WCI Cable Inc.'s international cable landing station at Nedonna Beach, Oregon.

Further information is avaliable at www.southerncrosscables.com

Installation Report- Charts - Route Position List

The three Tyco cables landing in Oregon are part of a 'ring' of Tyco transpacific cables, which connect Oregon to east Asia and southern California. The Tyco Pacific system has 8 fiber pairs with a planned capacity of 7.68 terabits per second -- roughly the capacity needed to transmit 700 million 1-page e-mails in one second. Transmission time between Oregon and Japan is approximately 22 milliseconds. Tyco Pacific is part of the Tyco Global Network,™ (TGN) a technologically advanced 90,000 km cable system linking Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Phase 1 of the TGN is scheduled for completion in late 2002 and will span 90,000 kilometers and link 30 cities around the world. Tyco Telecommunications is the owner, builder and installer of this cable system. The Oregon Fishermen’s Cable Committee participated in the planning of the Oregon shelf routes and had representatives aboard cable installation vessels for each of the Oregon cable landings. The cables are covered under the terms of a fishing agreement between Tyco Telecommunications and the Oregon Fishermen’s Cable Committee.

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North Pacific Cable
A submarine fiber-optic communication cable, called the North Pacific Cable (NPC), has been laid out of Pacific City, Oregon to arrive, after crossing over the continental shelf, at the North-South Interplain of the North Pacific Ocean where it branches to terminate in Alaska and Japan.

PLEASE Note:
The North Pacific Cable is not covered under the terms of the OFCC agreements

Go to North Pacific Web Site for more information