Mountain View - Google announced on Thursday the activation of internet submarine cable high speed of 9000 km US-Japan project in which the company worked since 2014.
The cable, registered under the name of "Faster" (Faster), has a speed of 60 terabits per second, 10 million times faster than the typical modem, and cost $ 300 million.
"Internet users and our customers in Japan should note that things move a little faster. Our submarine cable Faster between Japan and the United States entered service today officially," he said through the social network Google Plus Vice President of Google infrastructure, Urs Hölzle.
The executive noted that the newly activated cable is the most powerful of all the submarine cables and between its peculiarities figure to issue multiple color lights at different frequencies.
"Faster is one of the submarine cables that connect different parts of the world and that, together, comprise an important backbone that contributes to the functioning of the Internet," said Hölzle.
The first transoceanic cable was used for communications via cable was installed in 1906. Most cables work within countries and between continents, but some cross oceans like the Atlantic.
The SEA-ME-WE 3 cable, which connects Europe with Australia and Asia, is the longest in the world, with a length of 39,000 km and 39 earth connection points.
Facebook and Microsoft are now working on the development of a submarine cable to be called Marea (tide, in Spanish) and should be completed in 2016, the first to connect the US with southern Europe, specifically the cities of Virginia (USA) and Bilbao (Spain).
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