FASTER Cable System: A New Era for Undersea Internet

The FASTER cable system is a game-changer for undersea internet. It's a high-speed cable system designed to meet the growing demand for internet connectivity in the Asia-Pacific region.

FASTER stands for FASTER (cable system), and it's a joint project between several companies, including Facebook, Google, and others. The cable system spans over 14,000 kilometers, connecting Japan to the United States.

The FASTER cable system has a design capacity of 60 Tbps, making it one of the fastest undersea cables in the world. This means it can transmit a massive amount of data in a short amount of time.

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The FASTER cable system was made possible by a global consortium of six companies, including China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, Google, KDDI, and SingTel. They came together to create a new trans-Pacific cable system that would meet the increasing demands for broadband and mobile data exchange.

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The consortium's goal was to build a system that would rapidly serve surging traffic demands, hence the name FASTER. The system would feature the latest high-quality 6-fiber-pair cable and optical transmission technologies, with an initial design capacity of 60Tb/s.

The FASTER cable system will connect the United States to two landing locations in Japan, Chikura and Shima. It will also feature seamless connectivity to many neighboring cable systems to extend the capacity beyond Japan to other Asian locations.

The six-company consortium invested approximately USD $300 million in the FASTER system. NEC Corporation was chosen as the system supplier due to its expertise in constructing submarine cable systems, having built over 200,000 kilometers of cables over 30 years.

The FASTER cable system was designed to be ready-for-service during the second quarter of 2016. However, the construction was completed ahead of schedule, with the system becoming operational on June 30, 2016.

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The FASTER cable system is up and running, providing a robust and resilient connectivity to major hubs on the West Coast of the U.S. It spans 9,000km across Japan and the West Coast in the US.

The system lands in Oregon in the US as well as two landing points in Japan, namely Chiba and Mie. These two landing points in Japan facilitate the cable's easy access to major cities in Japan and other Asian locations.

The FASTER cable system delivers 60 Terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth across the Pacific, making it a significant boost to trans-Pacific capacity and connectivity.

The system has extended connections to major hubs on the West Coast of the US, covering Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Portland, and Seattle.

Construction of the system was completed in June 2016, and it started service on June 30, 2016.

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