Google is going to invests in 60-terabit $300-million trans-Pacific cable to protect its growth in Asia.
Tech giant Google has announced that it has joined five other companies to build a trans-Pacific cable system that connects the west coast of the U.S. to the cities of Chikura and Shima in Japan. Known as FASTER, the cable system is estimated to cost $300 million. FASTER addresses the traffic demands for broadband and mobile content on the trans-Pacific route. FASTER will be designed with 6-fiber-pair cable and optical transmission technologies with an initial capacity of 60Tb/s (100Gb/s x 100 wavelengths x 6 fiber-pairs).
The other five investors in FASTER include China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, KDDI and SingTel. NEC, the top vendor of submarine cable systems with over 200,000 kilometers of cables, will be the system supplier for FASTER.
Let’s have a look at the main facts of this project:
*The $300 million (£178 million) global project is called Faster
*It will involve laying cable 5,000 miles (8,000 km) under the ocean
*The trans-Pacific cable will run from the west coast of the US and Japan at depths of around 7,000 miles (11,200 km)
*It will link up with local cable systems already in place in the US and Japan
*This will improve the network beyond Japan and into Asia
*On the US side, the cable will connect networks in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle
“At Google we want our products to be fast and reliable, and that requires a great network infrastructure, whether it’s for the more than a billion Android users or developers building products on Google Cloud Platform. And sometimes the fastest path requires going through an ocean,” said Google’s senior vice president of technical infrastructure and Google Fellow, Urs Hölzle, on Google+. “That’s why we’re investing in FASTER, a new undersea cable that will connect major West Coast cities in the US to two coastal locations in Japan with a design capacity of 60 Tbps (that’s about ten million times faster than your cable modem).”
Submarine Cable :
*A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations.
It is laid by specially designed ships that can carry thousands of miles of coiled cable in their holds and can lay it as it travels across the ocean.
The first commercial cables were laid in 1850 to send telegraphy traffic. Since then the cables have been used to send telephone traffic, and most recently data traffic.
Many of the modern cables are made of fibre optic.
Trial cables were laid in 1842 in New York harbour and were insulated with tarred hemp and rubber. Nowadays, cables are protected using polyethylene.
Traditionally the cables were owned by service providers, yet websites have also started buying submarine cables to control their networks including Google and Facebook. *
FASTER is one of a few hundred submarine telecommunications cables connecting various parts of the world,” FASTER chairman Woohyong Choi said in a press release. “These cables collectively form an important infrastructure that helps run global Internet and communications. The consortium partners are glad to work together to add a new cable to our global infrastructure. The FASTER cable system has the largest design capacity ever built on the Trans-Pacific route, which is one of the longest routes in the world. The agreement announced today will benefit all users of the global Internet.”
Construction of FASTER will begin immediately and the system is targeted to be ready-for-service during the second quarter of 2016.
This project is not new ground for Google, according to the Wall Street Journal. The search engine firm took part in a similar $300-million cable project in 2010.
Private networks are most often used for home, office and businesses because of data security offered and because it cannot be accessed by devices outside the network. Public networks, on the other hand, enable anyone to gain access to other networks or the Internet.
Much of Google’s bandwidth is set aside for its private ‘B4’ network. The B4 network is used to send e-mails and transmit YouTube videos and other data, the WSJ said.
Google investing in building of world’s fastest trans-Pacific cable
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