Want ChinaTimes, Staff Reporter 2014-08-13
Google is partnering with telecom operators and communications companies from five countries, including China Mobile and China Telecom, to lay a US$300 million undersea cable network across the Pacific Ocean. The network will be extended to other Asian countries in the future.
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| A Google conference held in Beijing in May this year. (Photo/CFP) |
Google is partnering with telecom operators and communications companies from five countries, including China Mobile and China Telecom, to lay a US$300 million undersea cable network across the Pacific Ocean. The network will be extended to other Asian countries in the future.
The
international units of the two Chinese companies as well as France's Global
Transit, Japan's KDDI Corp and Singapore Telecommunication will work with
Google on the network, named FASTER. The network will connect major cities
along the US west coast including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and
Portland to the Japanese coastal cities of Chikura and Shima.
The cable
will be able to relay information at 60 terabits per second, 10 million times
faster than modems, when the network begins providing services in the second
quarter of 2016.
This is
Google's third undersea cable network after the Unity cable network that the
internet giant built in 2008 connecting Japan and the United States. Google has
also invested in another cable network connecting Japan to countries in
Southeast Asia including the Philippines and Thailand.
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