October 31, Japan Telecom giant Softbank is working with Facebook, Amazon and other technology companies to jointly build Asia and North America to connect up to 14,000 km of trans-Pacific submarine cable.
The cable system, known as Jupiter, has two landing spots in Japan, Shima County, Shibu County, and Maruyama, Chiba Prefecture, with landing points in the Philippines, near the United States and Los Angeles. The company includes Softbank's Japanese rival NTT, Hong Kong PCCW Global and PLDT from the Philippines, where TE SubCom is the system supplier, which is expected to be completed by 2020 and will promise a capacity of 60 Tbps, but may later expand to meet Growing data needs and complement existing wired systems.
Softbank outlines its vision for the future, in which the Internet of Things (IoT) will bring trillions of networked devices worldwide, which is one of the reasons it joins the alliance, "The company said: 'Softbank is committed to building and optimizing its network Infrastructure to Support Rapidly Growing Traffic Needs and Customers The bandwidth needs in the Pacific continue to grow at an alarming rate with the addition of capabilities such as video streaming, augmentation and virtual reality.
Considering the need for high-speed data transmission for cloud services, video streaming, Facebook and Amazon are also interested in boosting global speed, and in fact many US large technology companies have recently invested in submarine cable systems. Last month, Microsoft And Facebook's transatlantic Internet cable has been completed more than 6400 km. Earlier this year, Google said it would support the laying of submarine cable between Asia and Australia Indigo. In other places, Google and Facebook last year between Los Angeles and Hong Kong The establishment of a new submarine cable, and Google support for cross-Pacific network cable (from Japan to Oregon) also opened.