3 posts and columns on submarine

Despite the Quake, Japan's Internet Connections Are Going Strong

in Enterprise on March 12, 2011 at 8:50 am PT

The combination of the worst earthquake in memory and Tsunami wave hasn’t managed to cut Japan off from the Internet, one of the few bits of good news. Though as the Internet research firm Renesys reports, there has been some damage to key undersea cables.

The Anchor Found Near the Cut Google Cable–It's From the S.S. Ballmer, Sir, Redux

in News on August 26, 2008 at 1:05 pm PT

Who would have thought that a search company that began as a Ph.D. research project back in 1996 would someday become of a behemoth of such bandwidth-consuming appetite that it would require its own high-bandwidth undersea communications cables? Earlier this year, Google revealed that it had joined a six-company consortium to build a new multi-terabit undersea cable linking the U.S. and Japan. And now it appears the company is planning at least two more.

The Anchor Found Near the Cut Google Cable–It’s From the S.S. Ballmer, Sir, Redux

in News on August 26, 2008 at 1:05 pm PT

Who would have thought that a search company that began as a Ph.D. research project back in 1996 would someday become of a behemoth of such bandwidth-consuming appetite that it would require its own high-bandwidth undersea communications cables? Earlier this year, Google revealed that it had joined a six-company consortium to build a new multi-terabit undersea cable linking the U.S. and Japan. And now it appears the company is planning at least two more.