Google and Facebook are to install an 8,000-mile ultra high capacity internet cable which will link Los Angeles to Hong Kong.
The super-fast Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) will be powerful enough to handle 80 million simultaneous HD video conference calls between the two cities.
To do this, the cable will have a capacity of 120 Tbps, making it the highest-capacity trans-Pacific route when it comes online in 2018.
The super cable will be twice as powerful as the current record-holding Faster cable that went live in June and which is 10 million times faster than a modem.
Google said: “It is our mission is to connect people to the world’s information by providing fast and reliable infrastructure.
“From data centers to cables under the sea, we’re dedicated to building infrastructure that reaches more people than ever before.
“PLCN is designed to accommodate evolving infrastructure technology, allowing us to independently choose network equipment and refresh optical technology as it advances.”
The Faster Cable system transmits multiple colours of light over various frequencies, using a repeater to reenergize the light roughly every 37 miles.
Faster and PLCN are hust two of several hundred submarine cables which connect different areas of the word and which gives the Internet its underwater ‘backbone.’
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