{"id":170239,"date":"2016-06-30T08:40:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T06:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=170239"},"modified":"2016-06-30T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T06:42:31","slug":"googles-faster-cable-system-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/170239-googles-faster-cable-system-now-live.html","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s FASTER Cable System now live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nec.com\/en\/press\/201606\/global_20160629_02.html\" target=\"_blank\">The FASTER Cable System<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>has been completed and will start service on 30 June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The 9,000km trans-Pacific cable lands in Oregon in the United States and two landing points in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>FASTER&#8217;s connectivity to many neighboring cable systems extends the cable&#8217;s capacity beyond Japan to other Asian locations.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0is the first trans-Pacific submarine cable system designed from day one to support digital coherent transmission technology, using optimized fibres throughout the submarine portion.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of low-loss fibre and the latest digital signal processor enables the cable to deliver 60Tbps of bandwidth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FASTER-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-170249\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FASTER-1.jpg\" alt=\"FASTER\" width=\"431\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FASTER-1.jpg 431w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FASTER-1-120x86.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on cable systems<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/169409-faster-speeds-and-lower-latency-on-seacom.html\"><strong>Faster speeds and lower latency on Seacom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/166600-what-seacoms-network-really-looks-like.html\"><strong>What Seacom\u2019s network really looks like<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/166172-seacom-in-the-market-to-buy-internet-companies-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Seacom in the market to buy Internet companies in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 9,000km FASTER submarine cable system linking Japan and the West Coast of the U.S. is ready for service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":170243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,37859,37861,26336,37867,37863,167,37865],"class_list":["post-170239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-active","tag-china-mobile-international","tag-china-telecom-global","tag-faster","tag-faster-cable-system","tag-global-transit","tag-google","tag-kddi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170253,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170239\/revisions\/170253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}