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BI finishing the preparations for deploying undersea Internet cable - her days, and claims that you will earn big 

Bezeq finishing the preparations for deploying undersea Internet cable - her days. Event press conference this morning (Tuesday) the company reported that infrastructure work at the beach in Tel Aviv almost completed, now waiting for the company as of September, then a special ship will arrive in Israel and will begin to deploy the 2297-kilometer-long cable from Tel Aviv to Bari, Italy. The new cable, BIOS name, including a potential capacity of 7.2 terabytes per second, according to CEO Itzik Benvenisti BI is ready for commercial operation by the end of the year. Official evaluation of BI, incidentally, stands ready early next year.



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 Currently, the local Internet infrastructure is global and one main artery connector - Mednautilus company's cable, which belongs to Telecom Italia. All Internet companies in Israel use to connect to the Internet, as alternative means such as satellite connections are too expensive and provide too little bandwidth. This situation has some drawbacks. So, in February 2009 following a momentary glitch in MedNautilus, disrupted internet connection all over Israel for many hours. The timing was especially bad - election day, when the disruption began just moments before a sample advertising campaign. Moreover, the lack of competition is not beneficial to the customer. Bezeq International has declared last November, when it announced the establishment of the cable, it's not her own vein. Since investment in the project is enormous, and bandwidth Astronomical company plans to sell the bandwidth to their rivals. And to provide a high level of survivability, Bezeq International is already planning a backup cable laying in the middle of next year. At the same time, published today in Haaretz that another company, Tamares, ahead of its cable laying - track Haifa - Cfrisin - Marseille - so that he would be willing to task in late 2011 or early 2012.
Waiting for September. CEO of Bezeq International, Itzik Benvenisti (Photo: publicists) According to Itzik Benvenisti, has no doubt that creating competition in the area will benefit the consumer. Although he could not choose whether to connect via Mednautilus, via cable or via BI Tamares cable, but vendors are using the bandwidth you can buy at a competitive market. In addition, multiple communication arteries could prevent the recurrence of problems like the one that occurred in 2009, assuming that ISPs choose to work with a number of infrastructure providers for backup. Another advantage is the opening of the bottleneck, and the creation of infrastructural supply just enough for the coming years.