Google backing an underwater cable between Japan and the United States

August 11, 2014

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underwater_cable Having a direct connection to websites you're trying to connect to makes things a lot faster, but underwater cables take a lot of time, effort and money – hundreds of millions of dollars, in fact. Google and a host of telecom giants (China Mobile, China Telecom, Global Transit, KDDI and SingTel) are backing FASTER, a $300 million fiber optic cable that runs between Japan and the US.

The name is pretty self explanatory, as it hopes to make things faster by having a cable that offers 60 terabits per second of bandwidth between the two regions. You won't see a difference until the cable is functional by the second quarter of 2016, but speeds are sure to be faster across the internet as a whole.

Source: Urs Holzle (Google+)
via:Engadget

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