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FASTER cable, a new transpacific network link with a peak capacity of 60 Tbps

75 points by serialx 11y ago

tinfoilman 11y ago
Lets now play where do we think NSA GHCQ have tapped it.
- higherpurpose 11y ago
  Somewhere in-between those points, I'm guessing: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/01/nsas-google-worlds-private-communications/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/01/nsas-google-wo...
- jlgaddis 11y ago
  They probably get half of the strands, to mirror all the data passing through the other half.
  - chinathrow 11y ago
    That were my thoughts before, or at least how I'd do it: - seal deals to get x strands - tap it while still unlit - mirror what you need and exfiltrate directly over your own private strands - profit
  - tmwh91 11y ago
    You don't need a full 1:1 mirror of the strands, you can probably filter off a lot of the traffic that you don't need to spy on (e.g. TCP overhead) compress it and use a fraction of the bandwidth.
    - visarga 11y ago
      or Youtube streams...
Frozenlock 11y ago
"Wow, that's fast!" Sure, at least 3x the speed of light... :-p
harywilke 11y ago
cool photos. Every time I see an article about cables like this on HN i think of the Mother Board Mother Earth article by Neil Stephenson. Worth the time if you haven't read it. http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html
nly 11y ago
Thanks, I always wondered what these landing sites looked like. Apparently the landings sites for this cable are Chikura and Shima, Japan and Bandon, Oregon. Looks like Bandon has some pretty coastline.
c0nsumer 11y ago
Linked from the Google Plus page, but kinda easy to miss, the original photos are from this Gigazine article: http://gigazine.net/news/20150615-kddi-faster/ http://gigazine.net/news/20150615-kddi-faster/ It's in Japanese (and thus I can't read it), but there's a LOT more photos. It's really neat to see these aspects of undersea cabling, particularly the actual gland/port in the wall. Locations like this feel monuments to me, and for security reasons are pretty rarely seen.
- netman 11y ago
  Translated link - http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgigazine.net%2Fnews%2F20150615-kddi-faster%2F&sandbox=1 http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...

75 points by serialx 11y ago

tinfoilman 11y ago

Lets now play where do we think NSA GHCQ have tapped it.

higherpurpose 11y ago
Somewhere in-between those points, I'm guessing: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/01/nsas-google-worlds-private-communications/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/01/nsas-google-wo...
jlgaddis 11y ago
They probably get half of the strands, to mirror all the data passing through the other half.
- chinathrow 11y ago
  That were my thoughts before, or at least how I'd do it: - seal deals to get x strands - tap it while still unlit - mirror what you need and exfiltrate directly over your own private strands - profit
- tmwh91 11y ago
  You don't need a full 1:1 mirror of the strands, you can probably filter off a lot of the traffic that you don't need to spy on (e.g. TCP overhead) compress it and use a fraction of the bandwidth.
  - visarga 11y ago
    or Youtube streams...

Frozenlock 11y ago

"Wow, that's fast!" Sure, at least 3x the speed of light... :-p

harywilke 11y ago

cool photos. Every time I see an article about cables like this on HN i think of the Mother Board Mother Earth article by Neil Stephenson. Worth the time if you haven't read it. http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html

nly 11y ago

Thanks, I always wondered what these landing sites looked like. Apparently the landings sites for this cable are Chikura and Shima, Japan and Bandon, Oregon. Looks like Bandon has some pretty coastline.

c0nsumer 11y ago

Linked from the Google Plus page, but kinda easy to miss, the original photos are from this Gigazine article: http://gigazine.net/news/20150615-kddi-faster/ http://gigazine.net/news/20150615-kddi-faster/ It's in Japanese (and thus I can't read it), but there's a LOT more photos. It's really neat to see these aspects of undersea cabling, particularly the actual gland/port in the wall. Locations like this feel monuments to me, and for security reasons are pretty rarely seen.

netman 11y ago
Translated link - http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgigazine.net%2Fnews%2F20150615-kddi-faster%2F&sandbox=1 http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...