- 3PairSystem – initial design capacity 100 Gbps x 100 λ per fiber pair = 30 terabit per second capacity
- Resilient network design, mostly buried 12 feet below sea
- Six cable landings installed 60-80 feet deep in steel conduit up to a mile offshore
- Robust feeds and redundant equipment at each terminal power station with 24/7 monitoring and response
1 — In Service
Serves North America’s largest oil and gas fields at Prudhoe Bay
- 505 miles of terrestrial fiber running parallel to the Dalton Highway
- 1,182 miles of fiber buried 12' below seabed
2 — JAWS1 - TPC
Achieves route diversity, reduces latency, and establishes Asian network
- Extends from Washington State to Japan
- Connects Alaska to Washington State
3 — Trans-Arctic
Establishes Canadian & European network
- Connects Alaska to Canada
- Extends from Canada to London
Business
- Brings local businesses to global markets – extending their reach to new customers and suppliers
- Enables businesses to be more efficient
- Provides new opportunities for rural Alaskans to work from home
- Removes barriers of entry for new businesses
- Connect businesses to employees, vendors and consumers
- Eases regulatory compliance
- Spurns ecotourism and other ecosystem services
Education
- Opens the door to real-time distance education
- Homeschool
- GEDs
- Technical and trade schools
- Certificates
- Associate degrees
- Bachelor degrees
- Graduate degrees
- Job-specific training
Health care
- Telehealth/Telemedicine
- Helps make health care services available to all individuals – regardless of where they live
- Improves the quality, cost and availability of health care in rural areas
- Provides the ability of patients to stay close to home
- Improves access to specialists
- Enables more timely treatment
- Rural hospitals/clinics can connect quickly and securely to larger, urban medical centers
- Provides rural health care providers with continuing education and tools to learn new technologies
Quality of life
- Creates competition, which avoids monopolistic pricing and lowers costs for end users
- Has the ability to create jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities
- Improves effectiveness of public services provided by borough/city governments
- Enables limitless entertainment options
- Improves e-commerce capabilities
- Leverages the power of government funding