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_Published 2014-08-12. Tech giant Google wants to bring faster Internet to Asia ... again. The company's VP of infrastructure Urs Holzle announced Google will once more be investing in an undersea cable connecting the U.S. to Japan._


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## Transcript

Tech giant Google wants to bring faster internet to Asia again. The company's VP of infrastructure, Urs Hölzle, announced Google will once more be investing in an undersea cable connecting the U. S. to Japan. In a Google Plus post he said the company will help fund Faster, a cable with a record- setting capacity of 60. Terabits per second. At Google we want our products to be fast and reliable, and that requires a great network infrastructure. Faster will make the internet well, faster and more reliable for our users in Asia. Google will partner with five Asian companies on the $ 300 million project which will be built by NEC and is expected.

Expected to be completed in 2016. Faster, it's supposed to have 18 times the capacity of the company's last trans- Pacific cable project, Unity, which only went online in 2010. But Hutzley says without new infrastructure web users would quickly run out of bandwidth. Simple example ,. Every Android device, if it's connected to the internet properly, has an open TCP connection or two to Google. You know, right now, we probably have, one, 2 billion. In fact, a report from Cisco earlier this summer predicted that, with the rise of mobile devices and streaming video, global usage a zettabyte or a billion terabytes per month by the time FASTA comes online by 2016

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