It’s just about come to be a truism that internet links from the Asia-Pacific area to the rest of the world can be slow-moving and lag-ridden, but that assumption is about to be knocked flat if Facebook and others in a Time Dotcom-led consortium have their means. The alliance is investing an integrated $ 450 million into the Asia Pacific Gateway, a 6,214-mile undersea cable television that will run between Japan, Malaysia and South Korea. The fiber optic pipe will not only help decrease the demand to route big volumes of traffic through Singapore but, in several cases, deliver much of that traffic straight to American coasts– a significant assistance when Facebook and much of the internet business still hosts most of its content on the Eastern side of the ocean. Although faster speeds won’t be in location till the summer time of 2014, by which aim the even more direct connections may be positively required, it still gives hope to those of us who would like to poke buddies and upload photos in record time.

Facebook and others purchase 6,214-mile Asia-Pacific undersea web cable television, pal request lag to plunge originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for usage of feeds.

PermalinkBBC, The Brink|Time Dotcom|Email this|Comments

Popular Posts:

• Installing Virtue OLED Board & Laser Eyes in Dye DM9 Paintball Gun
• Bridging Digital and Physical Worlds With SixthSense
• Official Angry Birds 3 Star Walkthrough Theme 3 Levels 1-5
• HTC Schubert
• Hook Your Guitar to Your iPhone and Rock Out with iRig

Related Posts:

• Cuba’s undersea fiber cable potentially sees consumer internet use for first time
• Cuba’s undersea fiber cable potentially sees consumer internet use for first time
• Spotify and Facebook partner up, send Europe a friend request?
• How the iPad Blew My Chances at a New Romance
• Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, And Others Will Share Wi-Fi Hot Spots