PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Of the fiberoptic undersea systems announced in 2000, unrepeatered systems represent 3,650 route-km while repeatered system amount to 131,400 route-km. Alcatel and Tycom continue to dominate the business either alone or with partners, according to KMI Corp's annual undersea cable survey. Tycom, with a total award of 19,000 route-km (36,000 with partners), is the marginal leader over Alcatel (18,800 route-km alone; 30,600 with partners).Four times more undersea cable km will be activated globally in 2001 and 2002 than in 2000, which was a record year for investment and undersea cabled fiber deployment, according to KMI Corp.'s newly published annual undersea cable study. The undersea fiberoptics industry witnessed a year of strong growth in 2000. In total, 124,000 route-km of cable were cut over, falling just short of the record 128,000 km cut over in 1999. In 2000, more fiber-1,016,000 km- was installed than in any previous year. The $6.8 billion invested in systems cutover in 2000 was the largest figure for any year to date. KMI Corp.