New undersea cable backed by Google will speed US-Japan connection

An undersea cable backed by Google and Asian companies went for boosting trans-Pacific broadband was put into service this week, the consortium declared

The 5,600-mile (9,000-kilometer) FASTER Cable System is aimed at meeting the growing demand for broadband Internet connections between North America and Asia.

“From the very beginning of the project, we repeatedly said to each other, ‘faster, Faster and FASTER,’ and at one point it became the project name, and today it becomes a reality,” said a statement from Hiromitsu Todokoro, chairman of the FASTER management committee.

Built by Japan’s NEC Corporation, the project was backed by China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, Google, KDDI and Singtel.

Kenichi Yoneyama, project manager at NEC’s submarine network division, said, “This epoch-making cable will not only bring benefits to the United States and Japan, but to the entire Asia-Pacific region.”

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