60 terabit/s is not enough. Google and Facebook spleiser on much faster cable – digi.en

Only a few months after Google and several telecommunications partners opened “Fast”, a 60 terabit/s connection between the american west coast and Japan, so the company announced yesterday concrete plans for a new Pacific cable with even higher capacity and length.

The new underwater optical fiber cable, which called for the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN), to go from Los Angeles to Hong Kong – a distance of 12.800 km. The capacity to PLCN is estimated to be at 120 terabit per second.

the Cable should among other things be used by Google itself to provide the capacity to Google’s cloud and G Suite customers in Asia and the pacific.

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Collaboration

But Google is probably not the full capacity for themselves, for the development happening in cooperation with Facebook, in addition to Pacific Light Data Communication, and TE SubCom. In any case the latter should stand for parts of the technology that will be used.

It is expected that the cable will be ready for commercial operation in summer 2018. Then it will probably be stillehavsforbindelsen with the highest capacity. The price of it all has previously been estimated to be 400 million dollars.

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local record

despite the high capacity, will not PLCN be some new record for subsea cables in general. Marea-cable to the Facebook and Microsoft, that will go across the Atlantic from Virginia Beach on the u.s. east coast and Sopelana in the North of Spain, shall have a capacity of 160 terabit per second, when it is completed in the autumn 2017. But it will “only” be 6.600 km long.

In Virginia Beach also the planned Jörmungandr start, with the landing in Denmark and Norway. This will have between six and eight fiberpar, each with a capacity of between 18 and 26 terabit-per-second.

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Also, Nokia, Bell Labs and Nokia-owned Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks has vigorous plans. In a press release yesterday announced that they have managed to achieve 65 terabit per second via a 6600 kilometres long fibre cable. You can read more about the fiber cable at our partner site, Inside Telecom (subscription service) “