Movers and shakers: Mark Denvir, Russell Ambrose and Jeff Rodman
A roundup of events and ICT executive appointments across NZ
A roundup of events and ICT executive appointments across NZ
“This alliance will enable Tait to offer reliable and cost-effective connectivity between remote sites in mission critical emergency services networks for voice and data services, without compromising availability,” says Craig Clapper of Tait Communications.
Undersea cables carry virtually all transoceanic Internet data these days, replacing satellites as the preferred medium. Google and some telecom companies invested in one of them, called FASTER, that will stretch 9,000 kilometers between the U.S. and Japan and is due to go into operation next year.
It takes a plow the size of a small house, a robot the size of a truck and a purpose-built ship to install Google's latest oceanic infrastructure project - a super-fast submarine Internet cable linking the US and Japan.
With bottles of bubbly and a purification ceremony, a Google-backed undersea cable was given a warm welcome on a beach in Japan last week, a critical step in building the highest capacity data link in the Pacific ever created.