Pacific Cable Google 60 Tb / s in Japan met with champagne

Completion of laying an underwater cable tihookenskogo Google - an event that marked the end of one of the most important stages of the construction of network infrastructure in the Pacific. FASTER Cable length 9000 kilometers, capable of transmitting data at a rate of 60 Tb / s, joined Japan and the US West Coast (Oregon).

In addition to Google, as well as the project involved KDDI (Japan), SingTel (Singapore), Global Transit (Malaysia), China Mobile International and China Telecom Global. Cable "landfall" on one of the beaches to the east of Osaka, Shima. Cable is connected to a ground station, which houses the equipment to work with optics.



It is worth noting that the cost of the project was $ 300 million. The line in the next month will be connected to shared infrastructure in Chikurov, Chiba Prefecture. It should be noted that the bandwidth of the to 300 million times greater than the capacity of TAT-1 , Transatlantic highway, paved in 1956. TAT-1 can simultaneously support 36 phone calls, which is about 200 kbit / s. Of course, to compare such links more correctly, but Google decided to do it for clarity.

As Google also noted that the link is 3000 times faster than the 20 Gbit / s backbone TPC-5, built in 1995.



It should be noted that users who are on both sides of the Pacific, will not be able to choose, through which Highway will go their data. However, users whose data will be held on this line, some feel the acceleration in data transmission, said one of the project leaders.

On the page of the project in one of Google+ users I have joked that I would like to hope that the child playing with sand on the coast, not accidentally put the entire network. Clearly, this is just a joke.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/252568/