Not surprising. Google already have two, and Facebook have one coming as well.<p>In case anyone is interested in more information about the cables, have a note at <a href="http://builtvisible.com/messages-in-the-deep/" rel="nofollow">http://builtvisible.com/messages-in-the-deep/</a><p>Disclosure- I built the map
I wish someone would throw us Australians a bone and build a couple of more cables. We are suffering from some serious congestion issues at the moment because of limited capacity leading out of Australia. It is good to see that companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook realise that bettering bandwidth for consumers will benefit them in the long run.
For those unaware, Hillsboro OR has Intel's R&D arm and several datacenters (including ones still coming online).<p><a href="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/corporate-responsibility/intel-in-oregon.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/corporate-responsibil...</a>
<a href="http://www.viawest.com/data-centers/oregon/brookwood-data-center" rel="nofollow">http://www.viawest.com/data-centers/oregon/brookwood-data-ce...</a>
Sadly this is the price of entry for a world class software service these days. You need your own 10gbit + pipes around the planet. Now if someone could make a really heat resistant cable you could make a mint just going straight through the planet to the other side :-).