The search giant Google and five Asian telecommunications companies have agreed to invest about $ 300 million to create a trans-oceanic cable network that will connect the United States and Japan. The information capacity of the communication channel, which will be called “FASTER”, will be 60 terabits per second, which, according to the vice president for technical architecture of Google, is 10,000,000 times the capacity of a conventional cable modem.
The new cable line, which will be laid under the ocean, will connect the American cities of Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, Oregon and Seattle with the cities of Chikura and Shima in Japan, reports Reuters. The supplier of systems for cable network will be the Japanese company NEC. Construction work will be started immediately and completed in the spring of 2016, when the network will be ready for operation, the agency said.
The project provides for the creation of a network that can be connected to neighboring communications with a view to its subsequent expansion to other Asian countries. China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, KDDI Corp and Singapore Telecommunications will also take part.
It should be noted that Google already has experience in investing in such projects. In 2008, the company laid a deep-water cable in Japan, and in 2011 helped establish communications between Japan and a number of other Asian countries.
In addition, Google operates its own ultra-fast Fiber channel, which provides access to the Internet and television. The network infrastructure, established in the metropolitan area of Kansas City, is gradually expanding to other American cities.
Along the way, Japan and the United States are working on a space police project.
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