Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The Anchor Found Near the Cut Google Cable–It’s From the S.S. Ballmer, Sir, Redux
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.
