wiredinUSA July 2014

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More Pacific investment

The Wall Street Journal reports that Google Inc is considering a further investment in a new subsea cable across the Pacific Ocean. In 2010, Google tooka stake ina similar $300 million cable and the latest investment is a result of the increasing amount of traffic being directed through secure private networks. Google’s new subsea cable

would connect data centers in Oregon and Japan.

Much of Google's bandwidth is reserved for its private B4 network, transmitting emails, YouTube videos and other data. The Wall Street Journal report states that the private network carries more traffic than the public-facing network, used by Google to transmit Internet search results.

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