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Google laying a multi-terabit undersea cable
An Australian telecommunications news source claims to have uncovered a secret Google plan to build a multi-terabit undersea communications cable. Google has supposedly met with a number of carriers in Sydney over the past few months to discuss this 'Unity' cable that they want to lay across the Pacific Ocean, and tie into existing cables in Guam and Hawaii. Google had originally hinted at this venture earlier this year with a "submarine cable negotiator" job posting.
The partnership would add additional infrastructure for the internet with Google and the carriers joining forces to build the multi terabit cable. Google would have access to a fiber pair that could improve access and increase affordability of the internet across the Asia Pacific.
There is no word as to who the other carriers working on this venture with Google are. The route of the cable is also under wraps.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 8:09PM on 9-21-2007
Will this cable connect to the Looking Glass station?
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Zelidar said 11:54AM on 9-22-2007
Wow! Google just keeps stretching away from their core search business. I'd say that, from a general public point on view, these $$$ are better spent better tubing the internet than in a 767 luxury jetliner.
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