Chapter 389: One Gains, the Other Loses
Seeing that Takeda Nobuyoshi's face was not right, Thales quickly asked:
"Mr. Takeda, what happened?"
Takeda Nobuyoshi looked extremely unhappy: "Coral Cable just announced that it would build 19 large submarine optical cables."
"What?" Thales's face also changed drastically.
The secretary at the side quickly opened the Internet and soon found the relevant announcement content on the official website of Coral Cable.
According to information released by Coral Cable.
The laying of these 19 submarine optical cables will be completed by the end of 2024.
The 19 submarine cables are:
Three in the Pacific Ocean: Medan-Central America Line, Irian-Inca Line, and Luzon-Vladivostok Line.
Five lines in the Ceylon Ocean: Sumatra-Ceylon line, Rangoon-Ceylon line, Ceylon-Mada Island line, Ceylon-Persian Gulf line, and Ceylon-Red Sea-Suez line.
Five routes around the coast of Africa: Mada Island-Cape of Good Hope Line, Mada Island-Suez Line, Cape of Good Hope-Gulf of Guinea Line, Gulf of Guinea-Strait of Gibraltar Line, and Strait of Gibraltar-Suez Line.
There are four routes around the coast of South America: Central America-Inca Line, Inca-Pampas Line, Pampas-Mahogany Federation-Little Venice Line, and Little Venice-Caribbean Sea-Central America Line.
Two in the Atlantic: Cape of Good Hope-Pampas Line, Gulf of Guinea-Mahogany Federation Line.
This basically connects Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, Northeast Asia, Africa and South America, as well as the vast Pacific island countries.
In fact, it is well known that Sapiens operates many submarine optical cables of its own.
For example, between islands across Southeast Asia and between Ceylon and Southeast Asia, the quality of network communications provided by Sapiens is very high, which would certainly not be possible relying solely on satellite communications.
However, Nobuyoshi Takeda, Thales, Henry Perrin and others never expected that the Sapiens Company would act so quickly.
According to the published routes, the nodes along the way and the communication capacity of each submarine optical cable far exceed those of the submarine optical cables currently in operation.
Nobuyoshi Takeda, who was able to become the president of NEC, was certainly not a fool. He immediately saw through the ambitions of the wise man.
The other party intends to take advantage of the fact that Tyco, Alcatel-Lucent and NEC have not yet solved the problem of anti-fungal treatment of deep-sea submarine cables, and quickly connect submarine cables to all parts of the world, thereby striking at American Internet giants.
Europe, the United States and Sapiens are at loggerheads with each other. Previously, several European and American companies operating submarine optical cables have repeatedly targeted Sapiens' Internet subsidiaries and restricted their communication traffic.
Now comes the counterattack from Sapiens.
Looking at the route map published by Coral Cable, everyone in the conference room fell silent.
What can they do now.
Should we call on countries along the route to boycott the laying of submarine optical cables by Sapiens?
Even Japan, which was in cahoots with America, was unable to stop it when it saw that the coral cable route was directly between the Tsushima Strait and the Ryukyu Islands.
Because according to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, even in the exclusive economic zone of the ocean, submarine optical cables of other countries must be allowed to pass through.
Moreover, the compensation agreement signed by Japan and Sapiens some time ago stipulated that Sapiens could unconditionally lay submarine optical cables in Japan's exclusive economic zone.
As for doing things secretly, such as sending submarines to blow up the submarine optical cables of the Homo Sapiens company, no force dares to do such a thing.
After all, Sapiens is not Lucia and Deutschland.
If you don't want to take a local plane, it's best not to have any bad ideas.
Of course, it is not just the submarine cable engineering giants such as Tyco, Alcatel-Lucent and NEC that are anxious now.
Those submarine cable operating companies and Internet giants are probably like ants on hot pot.
Nobuyoshi Takeda did not doubt the plans announced by Coral Cable. Sapiens was famous for its speed in engineering construction.
He said worriedly: "We must find a way to solve the problem of deep-sea submarine optical cables as soon as possible, otherwise even if Zhiren Company does not take action, we will not be able to survive for two or three years."
Henry Perrin nodded and suggested, "How about building a deep-diving engineering submarine? This is the only feasible solution at present."
"..." Thales frowned, but he was planning in his mind that he would communicate with the Pentagon as soon as he returned, and it would be best if he could rent some of the sealed old submarines.
In fact, as long as they solve the problem of buried construction over 1,000 meters, they can achieve the goal of extending the service life of submarine optical cables.
Because the sea water temperature at a depth of more than 1,000 meters is lower than the reproduction and growth temperature of Tokyo fungus.
But this does not mean that the problem is easy to solve, because submarine construction is very dangerous at a depth of more than 200 meters under the sea.
But they have no other options and don't want the company to go bankrupt, so they have no choice but to give it a try.
Tyco is better off, at least the Pentagon will not allow them to go bankrupt and will definitely provide help.
Alcatel-Lucent also has the support of France. France's military submarine technology is pretty good, so there is no problem in converting a few of them into engineering submarines.
The only one who is suffering is Japan's NEC company, they are basically isolated and helpless now.
Of course, even if the engineering submarine plan is used, it will take two or three years to transform a suitable engineering submarine, given the slow construction mode of these developed countries, before qualified engineering submarines can be used.
Now the three companies can only pray to the chaebols behind them, hoping to get some assistance to overcome the current difficulties.
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The other side.
After Coral Cable Company announced its new submarine cable plan.
Along the route of the submarine optical cable, some bolder forces have secretly contacted the coral submarine cable, hoping to get a piece of the pie.
The smaller forces that were afraid of America and Sapiens pretended not to have seen the announcement and did not want to get involved in the tit-for-tat between the two giants, lest they be affected.
If you can't afford to provoke someone, you can still hide from him.
Even the Far East and India have to cooperate with reluctance. They have no choice but to cooperate unless they are willing to wait for the emergence of antifungal plastics in the future. No one can guarantee anything about the future.
In addition, a large part of their submarine optical cable projects were also contracted by Tyco, Alcatel-Lucent and NEC, and now they are just changing the contractor.
In this series of chain reactions, the most tragic place is actually Oceania.
Because Homo sapiens' submarine optical cables all bypass Kangaroo Country and New Zealand, and America is busy reviving its economy, it also has no time to update the submarine optical cables near Kangaroo Country.
Therefore, Oceania now has a tendency to become an island.
In fact, this has a lot to do with the geographical environment of Oceania. Except for being close to Southeast Asia, there is endless ocean in other directions. This geographical environment has greatly restricted the development of the Kangaroo Country.
Once America can no longer support the strategic system in the Asia-Pacific region, your Kangaroo Country will be the first to bear the brunt.
After all, Kangaroo Country is too far away from America, but relatively close to the headquarters of Sapiens Company in Southeast Asia.
So now the Kangaroo Country is anxious. Not only did it go to North America to cry and hope that America could support it more, it even began to seek to develop nuclear bombs.
It's just that the Pentagon is still hesitant.
In fact, it is no wonder that the Kangaroo Country is so frightened. The main reason is that in the first quarter of this year, the commodities in the Kangaroo Country continued to fall, while domestic prices were gradually increasing.
If America stops supporting the Kangaroo Country, it is estimated that the Kangaroo Country will collapse on its own in a few years.
