A consortium of six companies, including Google, invests $ 300 million in a new cable system of the United States, with two points in Japan need to connect. The system must be mid-2016 be ready, so, the consortium Monday known.
The work on the glasvezelkabelsysteem, that Faster is called and on paper about an initial capacity of 60 terabit per second, according to the six participating companies directly started. The intention is that the two Japanese cities of Chikura and Shima are connected with the American hubs, including Los Angeles and San Francisco operate.
Except Google also make China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, KDDI and SingTel as part of the consortium. The six invests $ 300 million in the new internet cable, which will be implemented by NEC. That company has in its thirtieth anniversary already about 200,000 kilometers of cables on the ocean bottoms laid.
According to the president of the Fasterproject is the system necessary for the connection of parts of the world with the internet. “These cables collectively form important infrastructure of the global internet and communications supports,” says foreman Woohyong Choi. “All internet users worldwide take advantage of this.”
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