Google Is Backing a New $300 Million High-Speed Internet Trans-Pacific Cable 135
An anonymous reader writes Google has announced it is backing plans to build and operate a new high-speed internet Trans-Pacific cable system called "FASTER." In addition to Google, the $300 million project will be jointly managed by China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, KDDI, and SingTel, with NEC as the system supplier. FASTER will feature the latest high-quality 6-fiber-pair cable and optical transmission technologies. The initial design capacity is expected to be 60Tb/s (100Gb/s x 100 wavelengths x 6 fiber-pairs), connecting the US with two locations in Japan.
Re:So which agencies' backdoors are in there? (Score:4, Insightful)
Does it really matter at this point how information traverses the Internet? It is a PUBLIC network. Do yourself a favor and encrypt all your traffic and you won't have to worry about which route your data takes to get to its destination. Doing it any other way is just not going to cut it these days.
Re:Big Challenge (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm not sure if I'd rather have the NSA spying on my or China trying to steal my intellectual property.
I don't believe this is an either/or situation.
Re:Big Challenge (Score:0, Insightful)
You mean "copy." And "intellectual property" is just a vague propaganda term designed to lump a bunch of concepts that are only somewhat similar together so as to confuse people and make them believe that it's related to real property.
Re:Slight problem (Score:2, Insightful)
I had an opportunity early last year to have a 10Gbps pipe, from my desktop workstation, to the Internet.
Conclusion? MEH. Except for bulk data transfers, nothing outside the university's LAN has a low enough ping to make it meaningful. And even for bulk transfers... anyone whose server has a 10Gbps pipe who's not brain damaged is going to rate-limit it exactly because otherwise it would take one other guy with a 10G pipe to clog the whole thing.
It _was_ really impressive that I could upload a 4GB iso of the latest TAU livedvd in under ten seconds. It'll also be nice when we get the new displaywall set up and I want to talk to ParaView on it. But on anyone's desktop? Pointless. There's maybe 1% of what I or anyone else does on a desktop where a lowly 1Gbps pipe isn't overkill.