The China Post
Date: September 18, 2016
By: CNA
TAIPEI — Google Inc. announced that an extended section of its FASTER submarine cable to Taiwan has been put into service, boosting the speed of data transmission in and out of the country and the computing power of its largest data center in Asia.
The cable connects Taiwan and Japan and is an extended section of the trans-Pacific cable linking to the United States that is being built by FASTER, a consortium of six companies that include Google, the company said.
It said the cable connecting Taiwan offers speeds of up to 26 terabits per second (Tbps) and will improve the computing power of Google’s data center in central Taiwan’s Changhua County — the company’s largest center in Asia.
This will enhance user experience with Google’s various online services, such as search, YouTube and Gmail, as well as for clients of the company’s advertising and cloud services, thanks to the faster data transmission speed from Taiwan to Japan and the U.S., as well as to other countries in Asia, according to Google. [FULL STORY]