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世界最長のケーブル敷設になる。
BBCより。
Google helps build ‘Faster’ cable under Pacific Ocean
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28754235
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Google and five other large companies are teaming up to build a cable under the Pacific Ocean that will deliver incredibly fast internet speeds.
The cable, dubbed Faster, will connect the US with Japan and cost about $300m (£179m; 225m euros), the consortium said.
The trans-Pacific fibre cable would deliver speeds of 60 terabytes per second – enough to send more than 2,000 uncompressed HD films a second.
The cable will be operational by 2016.
Google is working with a host of Asian telecoms giants – China Mobile, China Telecom, Global Transit, KDDI, and SingTel.
‘One of longest routes in world’
“Faster is one of a few hundred submarine telecommunications cables connecting various parts of the world,” said Woohyong Choi, chairman of the consortium’s executive committee. “These cables collectively form an important infrastructure that helps run global internet and communications
