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Google adds a 26 Tbps undersea cable to speed up its services across Asia

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by on September 6, 2016 at 6:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, FASTER, Google, Japan, Taiwan, Undersea cable


At the end of June, Google and five other members of the FASTER consortium added a $300 million 60 Tbps (terabits per second) fiber optic undersea cable between Japan and the US to increase connectivity speeds. The company is now extending its efforts to benefit Web users across Asia with a new 26 Tbps cable linking the FASTER cable in Japan to Taiwan, which houses Google’s largest data center in the continent. The company says that this should help Google services like Gmail, YouTube and BigQuery load more quickly for users in the region. Yan Tang, Google’s Network Resource Regional Lead for…

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