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- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -6/+107wouldn't stretching it cause damage to the cable?
but what do I know.... - FiP0, on 08/28/2008, -3/+87Pretty soon they'll have their own internet.
- opticwind, on 08/28/2008, -4/+64Google "admitted" that it was partnering with Japan?
"I'll neva' break down, coppa's! I'm no stool pigeon! No rat! No town cria'! You won't get nuthin outta me no-how no-way!..Also I'm partnering with Japan." - inactive, on 08/28/2008, -2/+50"admitted"...like it should be ashamed of itself or something?
- Ceryn1126, on 08/28/2008, -2/+46Your Japanese porn downloads just got a whole lot faster.
- borez, on 08/28/2008, -3/+40Good for Google... as long as it stays solid on the Net Neutrality issue:
http://www.google.com/help/netneutrality_letter.ht ... - wisefool9, on 08/28/2008, -1/+37I think I've found my new euphemism for jerking off in the bathtub.
- chasebadkids, on 08/28/2008, -2/+36Google.... Its everywhere.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -2/+33they are the internet.
- groo68, on 08/28/2008, -2/+32"google spotted laying down piped in the ocean"
google: What, this? oh this is just a little you know, toxic waste, it goes out here, where it wont harm anything.. i mean this is just for an underground murcury fountain.... all right we admit it, were building an internet, and you cant stop us. - championchap, on 08/28/2008, -4/+26Just as a quick side note, did anybody else notice this?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/championcha ...
Check out the version number of their update.
Google are awesome. - cbeach, on 08/28/2008, -6/+23To the "***** the telecom monopolies, hooray for Google" commenters - are you aware of how ironic your stance is?
- pronouncable, on 08/28/2008, -5/+21http://instantrimshot.com/
- JasonCox, on 08/28/2008, -2/+16Dugg up for "were building an internet, and you cant stop us."
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -1/+11i'd like that especially if they provide free broadband at stunning speeds
- orlyfactor, on 08/28/2008, -1/+10Yeah, but without free dinner for their employees, they won't go very far.
- Suricou, on 08/28/2008, -0/+8Extremally high bandwidth, long-distance links don't work like that.
The cable operator partitions the bandwidth into fixed parts, usually using the convenience of wavelengths, sometimes by other means. Each of these is effectively a seperate link, they just run on one cable. The quality of service on each is independant. Google will probably keep a few for itsself, and rent the others, as so most cable owners.
The sold capacity is bought by couriers - that's phone companies and tier-1 ISPs. The phone companies use some form of multiplexing to have their slice carry lots of phone calls, while ISPs just send packets through it. Importantly, the ISPs can't send more than their slice, and no matter what they do it won't impact other users of the cable at all.
Eventually the phone companies connect to your phone, or the T1 ISP connects to a T2 to a T3 to you... so you end up using the cable, though only a traceroute will show it.
The cable operator doesn't do any type of prioritisation, so there is no net neutrality issue for them. They just sell fractional capacity. - tiuk, on 08/28/2008, -0/+6Dugg for making my morning. Nice job.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5the US bukkake sites just got a stiffie.
- remakeru, on 08/28/2008, -2/+7it's kinda scary actually...
- Obonic, on 08/28/2008, -2/+7YAY faster internetz! and then they will look up fish porn.
- MtheoryX, on 08/28/2008, -1/+6I've been predicting this for quite some time.
It won't be too long before you can add Google to your list of available ISP's (in my case, that list would then include a whole 2).
Google laying underwater lines, buying up dark fiber, and the addition of widespread WiMAX...I'm liking what I'm seeing here. - 2oonhed, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4I would like to go see that movie. The hero?....I know!.....Flipper! The heroine teaches flipper how to solder underwater and how to read schematics. He swims and swims through tourtuous obstacles and angry fish that lay on the bottom of the ocean. He arrives to the repair site with his tools only to realize he left his meter back in the car.....but not to worry! Flipper saves the day, stopping the flow of electricity and stray Google internet from leaking into the ocean. Flipper returns to shore triumphant and the heroine rides off on Flippers back into the sunset.....the end/
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -1/+5excellent i live on miami beach....we have the prettiest people here but a shortage of smart people....i'm glad really glad.....
- MtheoryX, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4Apparently so.
- tomwhughes, on 08/28/2008, -6/+10hmm...I wonder what the fish will think?
- Suricou, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4In a word: Weather.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4you all over the place... first comment on one digg article now picken on someone in another one :)
- tiuk, on 08/28/2008, -1/+5Your plan to get more diggs by saying "***** the ..AA" has backfired. Congratulations.
- crazycraka, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4Yeah I can't wait for google internet. You can definitely count on it being like at least 2x as fast as the crap we get here now in the US.. Don't get me wrong my 6.5mbps connection is good. But we have the technology to do 20x that.. Probably more, and I think google will be the one that changes this!!
- YodaJones, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3***** peering with Telco's. Google should start it's own phone company.
- normalkid0615, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3Patriotic rhymes with Idiotic
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... - inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3I think powering the jet boasters to get the platforms to float would be more a difficulty.
- Greengoo, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3my new twitter quote, well said!
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3 no it was supposed to be a 'secret' intrigue is well intriguing
- Culyt, on 08/28/2008, -2/+5Stretching cables would be a cool idea. Probably doable with something like carbon nanotubes and rubber.
Carbon nano tubes are like science invented pixie dust.
☢ - Suricou, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3I assumed he meant floating platforms at sea. Nice idea, until the rain comes - or worse, a storm.
Also, fiber provides many orders of magnitude more bandwidth than any microwave link, or even free-air lasers.
Japan is wired heavily - get a cable to japan, and it's easy to connect to the cables going to the rest of the world. - thefinger, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2"Google stretching underwear cable"
I need new eyes! ahahahah!!! - inactive, on 08/28/2008, -1/+3no it has lycra ;)
- Scottc320, on 08/28/2008, -1/+3Google ISP?
- 1SockChuck, on 08/28/2008, -1/+3This new cable is tied to Google's data center expansion plans. Earlier this year they were reportedly scouting locations in Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea and India as well as other locations that were not identified. The dark fiber purchases noted by the Register are supposedly to support faster connections between theri US data centers. The undersea cable would serve the same role in the Pacific.
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/0 ...
- championchap, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Fluctuates a lot.. usually the full 5.
That's what i get for living out in the country. If i didnt have Wifi on you'd see that i dont even get EDGE here. - the13thzen, on 08/28/2008, -1/+3What does this accomplish?
Is it intended to be some sort of net neutrality guarantee? - scoottie, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2this will make it easier for gold farmers
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Yes, and eventually it will break, and send electricity throughout the entire ocean, connecting it to every water source, and everyone who turns on their kitchen faucet will be electrocuted! And no one will be able to cook anything except for microwaveable foods, and they will all have to use paper plates so they don't dirty up dishes they can't wash. And no one will be able to go into the ocean to fix it because if they set foot in the ocean they will be electrocuted too! Oh, and it will short out the internet!
- dacheetah, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2Flipper is immune to electrocution?
- Webwonk, on 08/28/2008, -1/+3Google is also said to be scouting data center sites in Miami:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/0 ... - inactive, on 08/28/2008, -3/+5These comments admittedly suck.
- VigRoco, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1It will stay neutral because it does not want to have to pay for the high bandwidth lanes that would result from a tiered internet.
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