Google continues to expand on its own self sufficiency by first having their own servers built for their own demands, than writing their own programs using open source and now they are about to embark on their own cable being laid at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The project known as ‘Unity’ will couple Google with other companies in laying a new under sea cable system across the Pacific using the latest in fiber optic technology.

According to the report from Commsday.com which states:

Google would not strictly confirm or deny the existence of the Unity plan today, with spokesman Barry Schnitt telling our North American correspondent Patrick Neighly that “Additional infrastructure for the Internet is good for users and there are a number of proposals to add a Pacific submarine cable. We’re not commenting on any of these plans.”

However, Communications Day understands that Unity would see Google join with other carriers to build a new multi-terabit cable. Google would get access to a fibre pair at build cost handing it a tremendous cost advantage over rivals such as MSN and Yahoo, and also potentially enabling it to peer with Asia ISPs behind their international gateways - considerably improving the affordability of Internet services across Asia Pacific.

It seems that for Google this plan of laying their own cable may be cheaper in the long term instead of buying services from other companies who already have cables in place.

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