Pacific Fibre, a New Zealand company set up to ”unleash broadband at all times of the day”, have announced plans to build another trans-Pacific network of telecommunications cables in competition with the network owned by Southern Cross Cables. Clocking in at an estimated NZ$900 million, the proposed Los Angeles-Auckland-Sydney network will pump 5.12 Tb/second of data direct to you and help lower international data transit pricing on the whole. With the promise of fat new pipes comes even quick load time on YouTube clips of American TV and non-stop streaming of all the porn you can watch! Hell yes!! So stop watching those carbs! This fibre I certainly want more of in my diet!!
♺ Ping: itNews, Juha Saarinen, “Plans afoot for new Sydney-US Fibre Link”, 11 March 2010. Photo: Adaptation of fibre by MikeBlogs (crop and resize). This version and the original available under a CC BY 2.0 Generic licence.