"The Global West project is a high-capacity telecommunications system that would directly link major cities along the California coast from San Francisco to San Diego using an undersea fiber optic cable. The system comprises a high capacity fiber optic cable that would be buried along the California coastline (3 to 12 miles offshore) and brought inland at seven landings in a "festoon" arrangement, a series of fiber optic cable segments with no in-line optical amplifiers or underwater repeaters."--Executive summary.

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