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wiredInUSA - August 2016
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Cable goes Faster
A trans-Pacific fiber optic cable system,
funded by Google and a consortium of
five other international companies, has
gone online and is ready for service.
The “Faster” system lands in Oregon and
has two landing points in Japan, in the
China and Mie prefectures.
The cable delivers 60Tb per second
bandwidth across the Pacific, and is
believed to be the highest capacity
undersea cable yet built - said to be
around ten million times faster than the
average cable modem.
Hiromitsu Todokoro, chairman of Faster’s
management committee, said in a
statement: “From the very beginning of
the project, we repeatedly said to each
other, ‘faster, Faster and FASTER’ and at
one point it became the project name,
and today it becomes a reality.”
The Google consortium includes China
Mobile International, China Telecom
Global, Global Transit, KDDI and Singtel.
The 9,000km cable, which has extended
connections to Los Angeles, the San
Francisco Bay area, Portland and Seattle,
was built by NEC Corporation.