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Google Helping Build Trans-Pacific Internet Cable to Japan

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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:

Terabyte Firefox Download Dialog

So yea… that’s pretty fast.

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