Google is part of the consortium announced the installation of cable Asia South-Eastern Japan (SJC or Southeast Asia Japan Cable) capable of delivering 17 Tbits of data per second.

Google Internet speeds

At the end of the year, Google's desire to speed the Internet is undeniable. He created his own service domain, exit his own browser and a new development kit for the Web (see"Google Web Toolkit 2.0 is here"). He also developed a new application layer named spdy.

A world record

Today, the search goes to the source of the problem by participating actively in the cable installation faster data transfer over the Internet between Singapore and Japan with branches in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Thailand and Guam. This is the cable the fastest in the world and may be updated to achieve up to 23 Tbit / s. This project will cost 400 million dollars (approx. 275 million euros).

The Californian firm had participated in something similar during the installation of a cable 300 million (approx. EUR 205 million) between Japan to Los Angeles.