Trans-Pacific Express Cable

The Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) is a submarine telecommunications cable connecting China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States. The cable is a $500 million joint venture between six telecommunication companies, with each company owning an equal share. The 11,000-mile cable was completed in September 2008, with the Japan branch finished in January 2010. At the time of its construction, the TPE had a capacity of 5,547 gigabits per second across the Atlantic Ocean and 2,726 gigabits per second across the Pacific Ocean. The cable provides a significant enhancement to the existing cable systems between the US and China, offering more than 60 times the capacity of the previous cables.learn more on wikipedia