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Google Buys a Piece of a Cable To Japan

Posted by kdawson on from the got-fiber dept.

Googling Yourself writes "Google announced that they will be part of a six-company consortium that will build a high-bandwidth sub-sea fiber optic cable linking the US and Japan. The new cable system, named Unity, is expected initially to increase Trans-Pacific lit cable capacity by about 20 percent, with the potential to add up to 7.68 Terabits per second of bandwidth across the Pacific. The name Unity was chosen to signify a new type of consortium, born out of potentially competing systems, to emerge as a system within a system, offering ownership and management of individual fiber pairs. Rumors that Google would join the consortium had originally surfaced in September last year but the company had declined to confirm or deny the news."

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  1. So how long until... by bennomatic · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...someone clips this line?

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    1. Re:So how long until... by RuBLed · · Score: 4, Funny

      But the other end goes to Japan... let's see how freedom stands up against the weekly monstrosities Tokyo is facing + the special once a year event where all the monsters join forces... but you should worry about Ultraman more since he would use those puny cables to round up those monsters...

    2. Re:So how long until... by css-hack · · Score: 2, Funny

      +4 Insightful? Really?

    3. Re:So how long until... by kaos07 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I thought that, then I figured it might be a metaphor about the high occurance of earthquakes and typhoons? But I'm not so sure...

    4. Re:So how long until... by Dogtanian · · Score: 3, Funny

      let's see how freedom stands up against the weekly monstrosities Tokyo is facing Further horror ensues when it's discovered that the "cable" is in fact a giant tentacle.

      Californian valley girls soon learn what it's like to live with the horror that Japanese schoolgirls face everyday. Meanwhile, enterprising west-coast "gonzo" porn makers film the horrifying attacks and sell them as "Californian Schoolgirl Tentacle Hentai 9".
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  2. Sounds like a movie trailer by kaos07 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Specifically this line: "The name Unity was chosen to signify a new type of consortium, born out of potentially competing systems, to emerge as a system within a system, offering ownership and management of individual fiber pairs."

  3. Bandwidth by Wowsers · · Score: 2, Funny

    More bandwidth for adverts?

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  4. Re:Obligatory by phantomflanflinger · · Score: 3, Funny

    In congress terms, a terabit is a thousand pipes.

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  5. Corrected: Re: Outsource is now faster! by jchillerup · · Score: 4, Funny

    Outsourcing jobs to Japan would be the dumbest movie ever. http://youtube.com/watch?v=09SAiBiD0ak

  6. Re:Obligatory by Sillygates · · Score: 2, Funny

    In congress terms, a terabit is a thousand pipes. Didn't you mean to say: a thousand tubes?
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  7. Re:Good news all around if it happens by kitsunewarlock · · Score: 5, Funny

    My globe just shrunk a little bit more.

    They sell a creme for that.
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  8. until... by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also in the news:

    Microsoft/Yahoo opens deep sea trawler division.