Monday, May 25, 2009

NTT Buys Grover-Beach Based Pacific Crossing

The Pacific Crossing trans-Pacific undersea fiber network (PC-1) connects Asia and the U.S. It lands here (where I'm based) in Grover Beach, California. It was originally part of the Global Crossing network but was sold off during GBLX's restructuring several years back.

Today NTT (Japan's largest telco & a major international carrier in its own right) acquired it:

Official Press Release
Official NTT News Release
PC-1 web site

-jr