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Google Maps trans-pacific internet cable is live Google is part of a six company consortium known as faster other faster partners include telecoms like China Mobile SingTel and KDDI their goal was to create a faster connection between the u.s. and Japan well they did it let's talk about the connection itself it's a 9,000 kilometer cable that connects Oregon in the United States to two cities in Japan Chiba and me a that's about 5,600 miles for you Imperial types the six fiber pair undersea cable can deliver data at sixty terabits per second across the Pacific Ocean the cable itself was built by NEC a japanese information technology company in the united states the cable also connects to Seattle Portland the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles Google gets access to up to 10 terabytes per second of that 60 terabit per second connection for its own services including Google Apps and its cloud platform to get a sense of scale of how fast this thing is google says it is about 10 million times faster than your average cable modem the connection was originally announced in 2014 back then Google's senior VP for technical infrastructure said the faster connection would make the internet more reliable for its users in Asia Google also invested in undersea cables back in 2008 with a trans-pacific unity cable the company is behind for undersea cables right now that's it for this tech news update on my as that car and you can say on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash