Today Google announced that its FASTER Cable system, an undersea fibre optic cable that runs from the US to Japan, is now online. Google states that this will give them up to 10 terabytes per second, which is a sixth of the cable’s total bandwidth. Google claims that this is the highest-capacity undersea cable ever built, roughly 10 million times faster than the average cable modem.
Today Google announced that its FASTER Cable system, an undersea fibre optic cable that runs from the US to Japan, is now online. Google states that this will give them up to 10 terabytes per second, which is a sixth of the cable’s total bandwidth. Google claims that this is the highest-capacity undersea cable ever built, roughly 10 million times faster than the average cable modem.
Google’s motivation for this cable, aside from saying they have the highest-capacity one in existence, is to prepare for its launch of the new Google Cloud Platform East Asia region in Tokyo later this year. This cable coming online means faster transfers and lower latency for customers of Google Cloud Platform as they deliver data and applications around the world. Not only will this cable bring better speeds and latency around the world it will also bring valuable redundancy to the seismically sensitive East Asia region.
This cable marks the fourth undersea cable Google has run. The first cable was the 7.68Tb trans-Pacific Unity cable begun in 2008 and came online in 2010. With Google’s continued investment in infrastructure there is little doubt that they will continue to run faster FASTER cables as time goes on.
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