Who wants faster Internet? Of course we all do, unless you’re a masochist, waiting forever for your videos to buffer, your photos to upload, or even your browser to load. Google is aiming to deliver faster Internet to Asia by bringing a new high-speed undersea cable online. In fact, they have already started applying their new investment to the region, so you should be experiencing faster loading of Google products in the next few months.
A few months ago, in June to be specific, the six-member FASTER consortium started beaming light to the world’s “fastest fiber optic undersea cable”, called the FASTER cable. It enabled faster connection between the United States and Japan, but Google wanted to spread the love to other countries in the region. They invested in bringing a FASTER link from Japan to Taiwan, because the latter is where Google’s largest data center in Asia is located.
Google said that a connection this fast should give you speeds of up to 26 terabits per second when using Google’s tools and services. The illustration they used is that every 15 seconds, every person in Taiwan can actually send a selfie to their friend in Japan, resulting in 138 billion selfies per day. Of course thats’s just an illustration of what that speed means and not to be taken literally.
Google has also built two data centers in Asia, the aforementioned Taiwan and another one in Singapore, and has expanded their Singapore facilities as well. This is due to the fact that there are more people in Asia who are going online every day than anywhere else in the world. Hopefully, it’s more than just a ton of selfies.
SOURCE: Google
