{"id":182772,"date":"2016-10-13T07:28:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T05:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=182772"},"modified":"2016-10-13T07:30:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T05:30:14","slug":"google-and-facebook-to-build-120tbps-cable-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/182772-google-and-facebook-to-build-120tbps-cable-system.html","title":{"rendered":"Google and Facebook to build 120Tbps cable system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TE SubCom, along with Facebook, Google, and Pacific Light Data Communication, will <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudplatform.googleblog.com\/2016\/10\/new-undersea-cable-expands-capacity-for-Google-APAC-customers-and-users.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>build the Pacific Light Cable Network<\/strong><\/a> (PLCN).<\/p>\n<p>PLCN is a 12,800km transpacific submarine cable system that will provide the first direct undersea route between Hong Kong and Los Angeles with ultra-high capacity transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled for commercial launch in 2018, PLCN will include TE SubCom\u2019s C+L technology.<\/p>\n<p>The technology doubles the available bandwidth and capacity per fibre pair over a traditional C-band-only system.<\/p>\n<p>Once completed, PLCN will be the highest-capacity transpacific route &#8211; with an estimated cable capacity of 120Tbps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PLCN will bring lower latency, more security, and greater bandwidth to Google users in the APAC region,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PLCN.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-182774\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PLCN.png\" alt=\"plcn\" width=\"479\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PLCN.png 613w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PLCN-412x430.png 412w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/182402-google-rgb-to-hex.html\">Google RGB to Hex<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Facebook have partnered with other companies to build a 12,800km transpacific submarine cable system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":182778,"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":[36,161,167],"class_list":["post-182772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182772"}],"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=182772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182782,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182772\/revisions\/182782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}