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Google's 'FASTER' 9000km, 60Tbps Transpacific Fiber Optics Cable Completed (9to5google.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via 9to5Google: Google and an association of telecom providers have announced that the FASTER broadband cable system that links Japan and the United States is now complete. The system is the fastest of its kind and stretches nearly 9,000 km across the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, starting in Oregon and ending in two landing spots in Japan. The association consists of Google, China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, KDDI, Singtel, and supplier NEC Corporation. The estimated construction cost of the project was $300 million in 2014. At 60 terabits per second, FASTER will help "support the expected four-fold increase in broadband traffic demand between Asia and North America." The system uses a six-fiber pair cable and the latest 100Gbps digital coherent optical transmission technology. The service is scheduled to start on June 30, 2016, and will help increase the connectivity between Google's data centers scattered around the globe.
I bet they never saw the disaster in Rio coming.
Would it really be that much more expensive to drop 50 or more if you are doing it? I would think that most of the cost is not in the materials but labor.
interesting
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
What's with all the Yay Google stories? Is Google paying the Slashdot colo bill or something?
I don't want any radioactive zeros or ones showing up at my Ethernet port.
I'm so high that when I read "2014" I thought I was not in the present anymore!
Will this fix the lag in Splatoon?
Wouldn't that be the largest, the widest, or the broadest, or something like that? I'm guessing the latency for the distance isn't any lower than most other connections "of its kind", i.e.fiber optic, AKA light through fibers. Pretty sure light through the same material type generally travels the same speed.
I mean, we don't call this the "fastest" dump truck in the world because it hauls a larger payload a similar speed as other dump trucks.
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
Google should have added some loops to make it over 9000.
Now if you could link Australia to that, that'd be great.
I have to ensure I switch away from Google Public DNS to my ISP's normal DNS servers before doing any OSX/iOS updates. Otherwise Akamai CDN gets confused and serves up update content from machines inside NTT, Tokyo. When this happens a typical OS update takes days instead of minutes due to the godawful latency and packet retries.
The headline should read that, because that's exactly what this project is all about.
NSA's Google can't encourage enough people to send them their personal details by utilising various Google spyware like android/chrome/mail/search/etc, so they had to forcefully enter the market and push themselves down peoples throat, whether people like it or not.
Will it run Linux?
A cable system being built by a Japanese firm out of Chinese components, managed by Singaporean, Chinese and Japanese telcos. But it has Google as a minor sponsor, so you think it's an NSA plot?
They will be CHEAPER and BETTER. But you'll only be able to use any two of them at one time.
Undersea cables are interesting beasts. When you look at them they are MASSIVE and so you figure there are a lot of pairs. Nope. 4-8 usually. All the rest is shielding and power. The big limiting factor size and cost wise is the amplifiers. You have to have a bunch of optical amplifiers in-line with the cable, and those have to be powered from the shore. Obviously each channel needs its own amplification so in the case of 6 pairs that's 12 amps. You then need a set of 12 amps periodically along the cable.Every few hundred km or so.
Hence, undersea cables are small in count when laid. Very different form land. If you hook up a building, fuck it you probably lay 144 fibers minimum because that's a small sized bundle. However for those long-haul undersea connection, it is just a few fibers per massive line.
Anytime google is involved, they're getting something out of it. ;)
But I may just be wrong, and google is funding this out of the goodness of their corporate hearts
But when I think about Google's Fiber, Wifi, DNS, etc, it's obvious there's no stopping them in the lengths they go to, to further invade and learn about individuals, especially those that don't use any google products and manage to some-what evade their tracking using adblock, etc.
as much anime porn in half the time!
Loads Google home page in less than a second!
<blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>
So Japan can now watch American p0rn faster and American can watch Japanese p0rn faster also! ;)
--- Reality doesn't care about your opinions, it happens anyway and if you are in the way you'll get squished.
As an Oregonian, why don't we have a direct link to this motherfucker? We don't even have Google Fiber right now.
A for-profit business spent millions of dollars on something directly connected to their business and you've figured out that they did it as part of the business? Wow, you're a fucking smart guy. NSA better look out before you investigate whether or not they too have.... no, it doesn't bear thinking about.
I recall back in 2007 they proposed an easily installable FO link... https://archive.google.com/tis...
That this transpacific cable is less expansive than a single F-35C.
No plot, it's just the newest lane in the "Offshoring Superhighway".
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
Google has only one product and that is you the user.
Could someone explain how 6 fibers pairs at 100Gbps equals 60Tbps?
replicating most of slowly changing web contents. Use the capacity for phone calls between people.
That was so clever the first time I heard it.
if it weren't for all the "extra hardware" installed by third parties.