Google Undersea Internet Cable: 60TBPS Mammoth Internet Subsea Cable Finally Completed [VIDEO]
The FASTER cable, a giant undersea internet wire capable of delivering speeds up to 60 terabits per second of bandwidth, is set to go online on Thursday. The massive cable, a result of initiatives from tech firms such as Google, is 5,600 miles long and will run from Oregon to Chiba and Mie, in Japan.
Google has always been a company that explores innovations in internet technology. Back in 2008, the tech giant started investing in the idea of subsea internet cables. By 2014, Google made a $300 million investment in the FASTER cable initiative, a giant undersea internet cable that would connect the United States and Japan.
With its investment, Google joined a group of six tech conglomerates, including NEC, China Telecom, China Mobile, KDDI and Global Transit, who were then initiating the project to lay a massive internet cable from the U.S. to parts of Asia. With its speed of 60Tbps, the FASTER cable is about 10 million times faster than conventional internet cable modems.
The FASTER cable is connected to three specific destinations. However, its benefits would extend to the entire West Coast of the United States and practically every city in Japan. Apart from these, the giant internet cable is also capable of connecting with other major internet hubs in the Asian regions.
The cable, which began construction in August 2014, took almost two years to complete. Hiromitsu Todokoro, chairman of the Faster management committee, expressed his optimism about the completion of the project.
"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," he said.
Indeed, the world's largest conglomerates currently rely on the internet to conduct their business operations. Thus, initiatives such as the FASTER cable significantly improve the productivity and service capability of companies such as Google.
