The “Break it Down” Blog

If you remember our article from a few months back about Google taking the last decade to build, link and prepare to offer infrastructure services to the world’s ISPs, then this comes as no surprise: Google has entered into a 6-company consortium to build their own trans-pacific cable between the US and Japan.

The cable will be 10,000km in length and initially offer a throughput of 7.68 Tbps. If you are trying to map that number to the actual download window from your browser when you are saving a file, it would look something like this:

So yea… that’s pretty fast.