FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak capacity of 60 Tbps

You don't need a full 1:1 mirror of the strands, you can probably filter off a lot of the traffic that you don't need to spy on (e.g. TCP overhead) compress it and use a fraction of the bandwidth.

Frozenlock• 11 years ago

"Wow, that's fast!"

Sure, at least 3x the speed of light... :-p

harywilke• 11 years ago

cool photos. Every time I see an article about cables like this on HN i think of the Mother Board Mother Earth article by Neil Stephenson. Worth the time if you haven't read it. http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html

nly• 11 years ago

Thanks, I always wondered what these landing sites looked like.

Apparently the landings sites for this cable are Chikura and Shima, Japan and Bandon, Oregon. Looks like Bandon has some pretty coastline.

c0nsumer• 11 years ago

Linked from the Google Plus page, but kinda easy to miss, the original photos are from this Gigazine article: http://gigazine.net/news/20150615-kddi-faster/

It's in Japanese (and thus I can't read it), but there's a LOT more photos. It's really neat to see these aspects of undersea cabling, particularly the actual gland/port in the wall. Locations like this feel monuments to me, and for security reasons are pretty rarely seen.

netman• 11 years ago

Translated link - http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...

FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak capacity of 60 Tbps

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