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Google Just Plugged into Japan with Its Own Undersea Cable

6 pointsby state_machinealmost 9 years ago

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netguy6almost 9 years ago
Title is a bit misleading, Google is part of a consortium with KDDI, SingTel, China Telecom, China Mobile, and Global Transit. Google owns a single fiber pair in the cable (of 6), so they control their own optical capacity. They have a design capacity of 100x100G currently on their segment.<p>Google is also the sole owner of the cable segment between Japan and Taiwan, likely connecting to their data center in Changhua County.<p>This is one of 4 cables Google has invested in in some form, and the 2nd transpacific one. The first being the Unity cable. Google also invested in Monet and Tannat, cables between US&#x2F;BR and Uruguay.