日本国际电信电话公司与美国电话电报公司将铺设下一代连接日本与美国、横贯太平洋的海底光缆,计划于2000年开始使用。该海底光缆可容纳120万条电话线路,传送速度是现行电缆的10倍,即每秒100千兆比特,会起到降低费用效果。 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation and AT & T will deploy the next generation of submarine cables linking Japan and the United States across the Pacific Ocean and are scheduled to begin use in 2000. The submarine cable accommodates 1.2 million telephone lines and delivers 10 times the speed of existing cables, or 100 gigabits per second, to reduce costs.