Comments on: Google Buys A Piece Of Transpacific Cable

By: For Google, Capex Costs are Worth The Money: Tech News «

For Google, Capex Costs are Worth The Money: Tech News « — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:15:24 +0000

[...] Google is said to be the single biggest source of traffic on many of world’s networks and that is with only a handful of offerings. Now imagine how big Google will be as a percentage of the source of Internet traffic once we start taking their new initiatives into account. That also explains why they need to build their own networks and lay their own fiber pipes. [...]

By: Google’s Bet on Asian Bandwidth Boom Will Likely Pay Off

Google’s Bet on Asian Bandwidth Boom Will Likely Pay Off — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:31:31 +0000

[...] ranging from Google to any number of telecommunications firms have a stake in some of the new Pacific cables designed to connect the Western U.S. with some of the world’s biggest broadband consumers as well as [...]

By: » Search Marketing Trends {Issue #124} - Search Marketing Trends

» Search Marketing Trends {Issue #124} - Search Marketing Trends — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:22:22 +0000

[...] platform, Google TV, an entry into the browser battle, and now the first ever purchase of submarine transpacific fiber optic cable by a non-telecom company, Google seems to be happy to abdicate the search growth and rest on its [...]

By: Google’s Underwater Ambitions Expand – GigaOM

Google’s Underwater Ambitions Expand – GigaOM — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:03:39 +0000

[...] Cable (SJC). If all this sounds like déjà vu, that’s because Google invested in the Unity submarine cable last year, and because the SJC cable was talked about in 2008 as well. This will be the second underwater [...]

By: 10 Stories That Defined Broadband in 2008

10 Stories That Defined Broadband in 2008 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:05:57 +0000

[...] installed, notably those connecting Africa and Asia to the rest of the planet. Meanwhile Google took stakes in pan-Asian cables as it tried to expand its reach eastward; it also bought a piece of satellite-based wholesale [...]

By: Under The Sea, Google Expands Even More - GigaOM

Under The Sea, Google Expands Even More - GigaOM — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:10:03 +0000

[...] this year, Google invested in this transpacific cable along with a bunch of other carriers. The Unity cable is expected to cost about $300 million. The [...]

By: Can Undersea Optic Cables Predict An Economic Boom? - GigaOM

Can Undersea Optic Cables Predict An Economic Boom? - GigaOM — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:18:04 +0000

[...] similar scenario is now playing out in the Trans-Pacific region where cables are being built rapidly, and the bandwidth capacity on pre-existing cables is being doubled. Many more cables under [...]

By: Don’t worry about undersea cable cuts at MasterMaq’s Blog

Don’t worry about undersea cable cuts at MasterMaq’s Blog — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:19:51 +0000

[...] Om Malik has a good roundup of reasons for why Google got involved. [...]

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Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:24:51 +0000

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By: The Google cable

The Google cable — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:35:01 +0000

[...] the New York Times and Om Malik: Google and five telecom companies will build a trans-Pacific cable between Tokyo and Los Angeles, [...]

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Random Stuff » Blog Archive » Off by one ocean. — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:40:43 +0000

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By: Julian Rawle

Julian Rawle — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:32:55 +0000

@Raindeer, the flaw in your argument is that the transpacific market is not a regional market and is not therefore ruled by the "paternalistic world of pacific nationalism". It is in fact the same as the transatlantic market in that it provides connectivity for US content providers such as Google to deliver their products to the masses in Europe and Asia respectively. I doubt that Google or anyone else of their ilk is going to tolerate a 10-fold difference in the price of a translatlantic STM-1 and a transpacific STM-1!

Moreover, the dominant transpacific cable at the moment is TGN Pacific which is owned exclusively by VSNL, an incumbent that has definitely changed its spots recently. There is also the PC-1 cable which is also privately owned and has the potential to be upgraded significantly now that the owner has emerged from Chapter 11. So I really think that the prospects for a benign transpacific market in the face of all this new competition are slim.

By the way, KDDI and FLAG are fully fledged international telecom operators whose core business is providing retail and wholesale international connectivity and must by definition own international gateways and infrastructure. A national ISP like PIPE, or a content provider like Google, or a major financial institution like JP Morgan, or an oil company like Chevron is a completely different kettle of fish but they all have massive global bandwidth requirements.

By: 2008 February 26 | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

2008 February 26 | Digital Daily | AllThingsD — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:45:08 +0000

[...] for network capacity, but apparently it’s quite a bit larger than previously thought–undersea-cable large. This morning Google revealed that it has joined a six-company consortium to build out a [...]

By: Google se scufunda

Google se scufunda — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:52:51 +0000

[...] pentru baloanele meteo care ar putea sa poarte echipamente wireless si sa acopere zone mari. Acum Google a cumparat un cablu (de fapt banuiesc ca este vorba de un manunchi de fibra optica) oceanic care face legatura intre [...]

By: Raindeer

Raindeer — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:41:57 +0000

@Julian if Pipe Networks is a non-telecoms entity than KDDI would equally fit the bill. FLAG was an even earlier example. I think what is meant is that Google's core business is not in providing access or connectivity. All the others are.

I do wonder if we will see a bloody war in this market. Almost all the investors in Transpacific Express and Asia-America Gateway are incumbents, often monopolists. e.g. Telstra has never engaged in lowering of prices (hence the investment by PIPE)

This is not the free world of western transatlantic capitalism, but paternalistic world of pacific nationalism.