3 posts and columns on terabit

Heads, We Call it “Brinternet”–Tails, “SergeyCom”

in News on February 10, 2010 at 9:04 am PT

For the past few years, we’ve been hearing rumblings about Google leasing hundreds of thousands of square feet of carrier hotel space, buying up dark fiber, mulling the purchase of hundreds of millions of dollars in DWDM and Ethernet-based telecom equipment and helping to build out a trans-Pacific multi-terabit undersea cable. Now we know why. Google is developing its own 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home Internet service.

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.