By Jeffrey Wu and Kay Liu, Focus Taiwan
Taipei, Sept. 6 (CNA) Google Inc. announced Tuesday that an extended section of its FASTER submarine cable to Taiwan has been put into service, boosting the speed of data transmission in and out of the country and the computing power of its largest data center in Asia.
The cable connects Taiwan and Japan and is an extended section of the trans-Pacific cable linking to the United States that is being built by FASTER, a consortium of six companies that include Google, the company said.
It said the cable connecting Taiwan offers speeds of up to 26 terabits per second (Tbps) and will improve the computing power of Google's data center in central Taiwan's Changhua County — the company's largest center in Asia.
