Google is part of a consortium of five other global companies that have signed a contract to build and operate a Trans-Pacific cable system under the Pacific Ocean, it was announced today.
Estimated to cost $300m (£179m), the FASTER fibre cable will connect the US to two landing locations in Japan and will deliver speeds of 60 terabytes per second, which is enough to send more than 2,000 uncompressed HD films a second. The cable is scheduled to be operational by 2016. As well as Google, the…
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