(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications provider NTT Communications (www.ntt.com) announced on Friday it has completed its purchase of Pacific Crossing Limited (www.pc1.com), which operates the trans-Pacific undersea cable network PC-1.
The acquisition was previously announced on May 25th, and was finally completed on October 23rd.
The completion of this deal gives NTT Com complete control of the 13,050 mile PC-1 trans-Pacific submarine cable, which offers high reliability and low latency between Japan and the United States.
The combination of PC-1 capacity with NTT Com’s extensive domestic and international network lets NTT Com offer customers in the enterprise and carrier markets the highest quality network services between Asia, Japan and the United States.
The existing Pacific Crossing management team will remain on staff and Pacific Crossing will continue as a business within the NTT Com group selling network capacity in the wholesale carrier marketplace, says NTT Com.
Customers of Pacific Crossing will see an immediate extension of network reach beyond PC-1 with extended domestic capability in Japan and the US. They will also be able to leverage NTT Com’s international network to offer turnkey solutions for Asia to US connectivity.
Pacific Crossing owns and operates the trans-Pacific, subsea fiber-optic network ring PC-1, connecting the US and Japan.
“We are extremely excited about what the future holds for Pacific Crossing and our existing and future customers now that we are part of NTT Communications,” says Pacific Crossing’s president and CEO Mark Simpson. “The majority of traffic between Asia and the US transits through Japan and this will continue to be the case. With so much content being delivered between Asia and the US, and with Japan as the primary interconnection point, NTT Com’s huge Japan domestic and international network reach will allow our trans-Pacific customers unparalleled access to all of Asia.”
