13.08.2014 - 15:02 [ Urs Hölzle / Google Plus ]

At Google we want our products to be fast and reliable, and that requires a great network infrastructure, whether it‘s for the more than a billion Android users or developers building products on Google Cloud Platform.

And sometimes the fastest path requires going through an ocean. That’s why we’re investing in FASTER, a new undersea cable that will connect major West Coast cities in the US to two coastal locations in Japan with a design capacity of 60 Tbps (that‘s about ten million times faster than your cable modem).