Google unveils it's faster, bigger data cable between US-Japan
Google recently unveiled its latest investment in long-haul undersea fiber optic cabling with a total investment in the Faster system reportedly approximated US$300 million.
Google is one of six members of the Faster Consortium, which officially announced the development of the cable in 2014. Dubbed the "Faster Cable System," it is the highest-capacity undersea cable built to date, providing 60-Tbps (terabits per second) bandwidth between the United States and Japan.
It is about 10 million times faster than an average cable modem and Google has sole access to the pair of 100Gb/s x 100 wavelength optical transmission strands that run between Oregon and mainland Japan. One is used for the sending data, while the other is for receiving.Faster will be used to support Google users, including Google Apps and Cloud Platform customers. Google will have access to up 10Tbps of the cable's total capacity. It will use the bandwidth to support its newly announced Google Cloud Platform East region in Tokyo, which is set to launch later this year.
The dedicated bandwidth that Faster can provide will ensure quicker data transfers, along with reduced latency, for GCP customers worldwide.