Google Opens Faster Big Data Pipe Between US and Japan
Google on Wednesday unveiled its latest investment in long-haul undersea fiber optic cabling. 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, Google noted. Google is…