New Pacific undersea cable can beam 60 terabits of a data per second

There's a lot of water between the continental U.S. and Japan, which makes sending data back and forth a little bit difficult.

In an effort to boost trans-Pacific Internet speeds and offer more services to Japan, Google announced it helped fund a super-long fiber-optic cable that spans the ocean, which is up and running as of Thursday.

The cable can beam up to 60 terabits per second, of which 10Tbps are allocated specifically for Google. That kind of bandwidth makes this the highest-capacity undersea cable in the world. Read more...