60Tbps Cable US-Japan

60Tbps undersea fiber optic cables worth $300 million is spread between Japan and the U.S. to speed up connectivity speed in Asia. The project is commenced by FASTER consortium which include Google and 5 other members. The undersea cable will benefit web users across Asia with the new 26Tbps cable linking the FASTER cable from Japan to Taiwan, which houses Google's largest data center in Asia. As a result, the project should help Google in providing services in the region. As Google's Network Resource Regional Lead for the Asia-Pacific region said, this "should also improve the reliability and consistency of this speedier experience, since the cable was strategically built outside of tsunami zones to help prevent network outages related to natural disasters." The speed that is enough to allow all people in Taiwan to send across a selfie to people in Japan every 15 seconds (128 billion selfies a day).