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Google plans to contribute to a $300m project that aims to traverse the Pacific with a new high-capacity submarine cable. The FASTER project will have a design capacity of 60 Tbps on six fibre pairs, each carrying 100 wavelengths of 100 Gbps, as this NEC media release says. The cable will connect two landing points in Japan …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    60Tbps? Gosh, the NSA will need some fast kit to tap that at wire speed!

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    1. Mark 85
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      Nah... GHCQ already has the kit to do that for them.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Joke

      Huwawei would be happy to supply this...

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        If you think Cisco and Juniper don't have a hand in that pork barrel you're wrong.

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  2. Mark 85

    I'm thinking with their fiber projects here in the States and now this, Google wants the Interwebs, etc. I wonder if they will monitor everything for "advertising purposes"?

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    1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
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      Not even a question - of course they will.

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    2. phuzz Silver badge
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      Meh

      Imagine how much money google have splashed on this cable alone, they're going to be trying to make that back any way they can.

      >>>> need a "$MONEY" icon.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        what are you smoking

        US$300 million is a tiny amount for them, they make that with the snap of a finger (or a push of a button).

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  3. Kevin McMurtrie Silver badge
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    China Telelcom (ChinaNet) should be able to use at least 150Gbps of those two links for hacking overseas computers. No joke here, unfortunately. It's a nasty network where there's not even a place to report abuse.

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  4. JeffyPoooh
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    Nice

    More like this.

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