Google’s FASTER Cable System now live
The FASTER Cable System has been completed and will start service on 30 June 2016.
Construction of the system was announced in August 2014 by the FASTER consortium, consisting of China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, Google, KDDI, and Singtel.
The 9,000km trans-Pacific cable lands in Oregon in the United States and two landing points in Japan.
FASTER’s connectivity to many neighboring cable systems extends the cable’s capacity beyond Japan to other Asian locations.
This is the first trans-Pacific submarine cable system designed from day one to support digital coherent transmission technology, using optimized fibres throughout the submarine portion.
The combination of low-loss fibre and the latest digital signal processor enables the cable to deliver 60Tbps of bandwidth.
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