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Google to build a $300m undersea cable. |
fatreg
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Short story
You know Google? Well they're going to put undersea cables between USA and Japan (along with a few other companies).
Its long, costs alot and can carry a shed-load of data.
Happy days.
Long story
Google finally confirmed the rumors of turning to undersea cables and announced that, together with other five associates will start “Unity”, a trans-Pacific undersea fiber-optic cable linking the United States and Japan. The investment will cost approximately $300 million and became necessary as the demand and the current capacity of the trans-Pacific cables tent towards an imbalance.
The international consortium includes Bharti Airtel, India’s leading integrated telecom service provider, Global Transit, a South Asian network operator, KDDI, a Japanese information and communication company, Pacnet, leading Asian telecom service provider, SingTel, an Asian leading communications group covering areas of Europe, U.S. and Asia Pacific, and of course Google.
The 10,000 kilometer cable, which has been designed as a five fiber pair cable system, each fiber with a 960Gbps capability, will link Chikura, near Tokyo, to Los Angeles and the West Coast and is expected to meet the new demands in data and Internet traffic.
“The Unity cable system allows the members of the consortium to provide the increased capacity needed as more applications and services migrate online, giving users faster and more reliable connectivity,” Unity spokesperson Jayne Stowell said in a statement.
The cable system is expected to respond to the demand in data and Internet traffic between the two continents and raise the current capacity by 20 percent, according to Google, and potentially add up to 7.68 Tbps of bandwidth.
The construction is to begin immediately, after an official agreement has already been signed on February 23 in Tokyo. NEC Corporation and Tyco Telecommunications will be responsible for constructing and installing the cable system, which is set to become available in the first quarter of 2010.
Google is not the only one to have made such an initiative, as other lines, involving the names of Verizon and AT&T are already under construction or under way. And it’s no wonder, since the average growth in bandwidth demand is up 64 percent almost every year, and is expected to double within the next 5 years.
My thoughts...
what about UK?
Will they do a line to my house? 7.68Tbps seems reasonable to me.. although knowing my ISP they will restrict my upload speed to 488kbps!
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jagger2k
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lol, can you imagine getting that sort of speed? you will download faster then you hard drive can save. |
himlims_nl
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google is one of the 5 who are planning this.
offcourse costs are high; but intrest for google is they get the bandwith at cost price.
this will leave microsoft/yahoo behind, since they have to pay full price if they like to use the line.
good move imho |
Xugaa
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I get 150kbps on a good day - wired as well.
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gaming_guy
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On 2008-02-28 21:02:13, Xugaa wrote:
I get 150kbps on a good day - wired as well.
70kbps here also on a good day on both wired and wireless connections
K700i > K750i > K810i (current phone)
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arien617
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Corr I consider myself lucky getting 400KBps
Mind you.. out of 8 meg.. psshhh.
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himlims_nl
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On 2008-02-28 21:02:13, Xugaa wrote:
I get 150kbps on a good day - wired as well.
i download round 1900KB/s don't think google will help to increase connection
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procterdc
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The fastest speed i've had is about 400kb/s when i downloaded an epsiode of simpsons. Usually averages about 140kb/s. I use talk talk.
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Posted: 2008-02-26 21:39
