By SubTel Forum
Damage to submarine telecommunications cables from the earthquake in Japan Friday is worse than first believed, with two segments of a trans-Pacific network out of service and at least two other cables damaged. Â According to a Tech World article, the western and northern segments of the Pacific Crossing-1 cable, called PC-1 W and PC-1 N, remained out of service on Monday, U.S. time. Pacific Crossing, a subsidiary of Japanese carrier NTT Communications, had a statement on its website that the company was inspecting the damage and accelerating restoration activities. The southern and eastern segments of PC-1 were still operational. PC-1 is a 21,000-kilometer fiber-optic ring that lands at two sites on the U.S. west coast and two sites on Japan's east coast. The more northern landing, at Ajigaura, is between Tokyo and Sendai, which was near the epicenter of the quake.
