Undersea 1.28Tbps cable joining the US to China is approved
Beats a slow boat
THE FIRST direct fibre-optic undersea cable to China has received regulatory approval to make landfall on the US West Coast.
Named the Trans-Pacific Express (TPE), the cable link is the first next-generation optical cable system to span the Pacific to China and will be the first undersea cable system to land on the US West Coast in seven years.
The 17,000 kilometer long cable will connect the US with both Korea and China and will provide greater communications capacity and higher speeds for rapidly growing data and voice traffic demands.
The cable will be capable of carrying the equivalent of 62 million simultaneous phone calls, more than 60 times the capacity of existing cable links between the US and China. It will initially provide data capacity of up to 1.28 terabits per second (Tbps), with the design capacity to eventually provide up to 5.12Tbps in order to support future Internet traffic growth.
The cable is being laid by a consortium of telecommunications companies that includes Verizon Business, China Telecom, China Netcom, Korea Telecom and Chunghwa Telecom. The first section of cable was placed on the sea floor near the Korean coast on September 21, 2007 and 55 kilometers of TPE cable were laid off the US West Coast in late November.
Verizon said it recently received a licence from the US Federal Communications Commission for the TPE cable to land near Rockaway Beach in Oregon state.
The TPE cable buildout is reportedly on schedule for completion in August 2008, in time for the Beijing Olympic Games. µ
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More bandwith = good
for more spam = not so goodoh yay
well thats great, now when war breaks out china can launch their cyber warfare attacks at maximum speed. oh, and taiwanese/chinese/korean script kiddies can try to break into my servers even quicker. oh yes, i'm looking forward to that.Faster Spam
With this improvement we'll be able to get penis spam at 1.28Tbps. That's *so* much better.ScottJ
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All the pie-rate software those Yanks can download from Chinese sites*sigh*
Why does this not seem like a very good idea? Cyber attacks are heavy enough as-is.Fantastic!
Now China can hack our government much faster than before. ;)Idea
Perhaps the US and china should put get together and put one spy tap and filter in the middle rather than 2 on each side, saves half the cost.Plus they can then share ideas on how to suppress people's freedom! And if it's on a platform in international waters they can ignore any decency.
incorrect
May I direct your attention to this Whackypedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam#Origin_of_spamSo no, China is not spamming the US, actually the US is spamming them (and the rest of the globe along with it). And considering cyber attacks - who's military doctrine is "network-centric warfare"? Hint: Its the one with the highest "defense" budget worldwide.
So kindly shut up, yanks.
Faster Job Loss
Think about the wonderful outsourcing possiblities. Jobs and money leaving at terabits per second. Tea Party Time methinksWhy bother comment if you nothing productive to say.
I still don't understand the idiotic comments people can make without every thinking about them before. I hope most of you do realize that the most spam originates from within US rather than china. So next time u wish to make a comment about other countries and doing attack realize we still live on 1 blue planet. (I am from the US in case you think I am commie bastard.)This is great as it will really help with worldwide communications and I hope they can build out more inter continent links to provide better bandwidth.
hack?
seriously, how much bandwidth could hacking possibly take? In regards to this, 1.28Tbps should not be anymore concerning than it already is.Unless of course, the entire population of China is going to engage in this activity all at once; over a billion people with their own terminal, and their own government issue "How to P4\/\/N Windows: N00bing Vista edition" manual .
If this is the case (which it is -- duh, they're oriental), then we best run a couple more lines out there...
Just don't get it
The US "Intelligence" community has been increasingly vocal these past few years about cyber-threats and actual attacks from mainland China and some other Asian countries, and yet they allow this to happen ?El Dubya has just been briefed by yet another fear-mongerer about the grave threat of a possible concerted attack on a bank (any bank, doesn't matter), and I learn that a high-speed connection is about to be finalized with just the country that is suspect #1 for this kind of thing ?
Can anyone spell "schizophrenic" ? Or would it simply be "hysteria" ?
Incorrect#2
Well, it sure is interesting that the same company, Sophos, posted percentages for China that were much larger only a year before. Either they are twisting statistics or we don't know all the facts. I don't see how they could go from 21.9% to 4.9% the next year...seems statistically improbable. The US may be the country as the largest offender but when it comes to regions, it comes mostly from the other side of the pond.http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/194
So, kindly shut up frenchie.