The US and Asia will soon be associate by a trans - Pacific cable internet that will carry data at — hold your breath — 60 terabits per second .
The gamey - speed connection , named FASTER ( you love , than just about everything else on the major planet ) , will tie in Los Angeles , Portland , San Francisco , Oregon and Seattle to Chikura and Shima in Japan , reportsReuters . Five Asian telecommunication companies – China Mobile International , China Telecom Global , Global Transit , KDDI , and SingTel – and Google will commit $ 300 million into this web , which will be ready for service in the 2d quarter of 2016 .
Here ’s what Urs Hölzle , Google ’s senior vice president of expert substructure , had to say in a Charles William Post publish onGoogle+ :
At Google we require our products to be degraded and reliable , and that want a corking internet substructure , whether it ’s for the more than a billion Android substance abuser or developers building products on Google Cloud Platform . And sometimes the fast itinerary demand going through an ocean . That ’s why we ’re investing in FASTER , a new undersea cable that will connect major West Coast city in the U.S. to two coastal locations in Japan with a aim capability of 60 Tbps ( that ’s about ten million times faster than your cable modem ) . Along with our previous investments – UNITY in 2008 and SJC ( South - East Asia Japan Cable ) in 2011 , FASTER will make the internet , well , dissipated and more dependable for our users in Asia .
The use of submarine cable to comport communication across continentsisn’t as newas you might guess . They ’ve been in usance for more than 150 year , and the method of laying them has stay fairly ordered since the beginning . control out thisfascinating mapof all the submarine cables to get an idea of how vast and complex this internet is . [ Reuters ]
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