Google Begins Using New Undersea Cable Across Asia

Home / News

Google Begins Using New Undersea Cable Across Asia

By CircleID Reporter
September 07, 2016, 2:06 am PDT Views: 5,016 Add Comment

Google starts using its new undersea cable to speed up Internet services in Asia. “Back in June, the six-member FASTER Consortium began beaming light through the FASTER cable, the world’s fastest fiber optic undersea cable to date, which connects the United States and Japan,” writes Yan Tang, Google’s Network Resource APAC Regional Lead. “We wanted to spread this lightning fast connectivity a little bit farther ... So, to extend the benefits of this Trans-Pacific link to the rest of Asia, we invested in a cable that links FASTER in Japan on to Taiwan, where our largest data center in Asia provides millions of people across Asia with quick access to our tools and services, at speeds of up to 26 terabits per second.”

By CircleID Reporter

CircleID’s internal staff reporting on news tips and developing stories. Do you have information the professional Internet community should be aware of? Contact us.

Visit Page

Filed Under

Comments

The Weekly Wrap

More and more professionals are choosing to publish critical posts on CircleID from all corners of the Internet industry. If you find it hard to keep up daily, consider subscribing to our weekly digest. We will provide you a convenient summary report once a week sent directly to your inbox. It's a quick and easy read.

I make a point of reading CircleID. There is no getting around the utility of knowing what thoughtful people are thinking and saying about our industry.

VINTON CERF
Co-designer of the TCP/IP Protocols & the Architecture of the Internet