In what year was the network of cables with which Pacific Fibre's proposed trans-Pacific undersea cable was to have competed commissioned?
Pacific Fibre Pacific Fibre is a New Zealand-based company that proposed to build a trans-Pacific undersea cable that was to have competed with the Southern Cross Cable operated by Telecom New Zealand. The cable would have totalled 12,750 km (7,920 miles) in length, and the initial investment was projected to be US$350 million. Customers included Vodafone New Zealand, Australian ISP iiNet, and the Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network in New Zealand.
I-ME-WE I-ME-WE (India-Middle East-Western Europe) is a 13000 km submarine communications cable system between India and France. The design capacity is 3.84 Terabits per second. It has been operational since 2009 with Tripoli, Lebanon being connected in November 2011. Internet Service Providers and Network Operators hope to utilize the additional bandwidth to support high-bandwidth peer-to-peer IP-based broadband services such as multimedia streaming, broadband Internet and voice/video telephony.