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Google's Subsea Fiber Optics

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Re: Google's Subsea Fiber Optics

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Post by ortusdux »

I wonder how long it will be before we see the first hollow-core fiber subsea cables. They are 50% faster, and tests from the last year or two have seen record low signal losses.

https://www.laserfocusworld.com/fiber-optics/article/1419605...

https://www.ofsoptics.com/wp-content/uploads/Hollow-Core-Fib...

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Post by gnfargbl »

I make 340Tbit/sec about 1.1x10^11 GiByte/month. GCP premium tier networking is priced at $0.08/GB, so at 80% load that cable would, very naively, have the potential to bring in $7B/month in revenue.

I'm sure they only take in a fraction of that, and their costs are substantial. But even so... cloud bandwidth is overpriced.

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Post by dilyevsky »

gnfargbl wrote: post #6

I make 340Tbit/sec about 1.1x10^11 GiByte/month. GCP premium tier networking is priced at $0.08/GB, so at 80% load that cable would, very naively, have the potential to bring in $7B/month in revenue. I'm sure they only take in a fraction of that, and their costs are substantial. But even so... cloud bandwidth is overpriced.

8c is for transit to outside of their network. For inter-region it’s like 1-15c depending on regions. 1-2c for us/europe which is probably overwhelming majority

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Post by upwardbound »

chrisseaton wrote: post #3
yewenjie wrote: post #2

I don't understand why or how the people in the video are so glowingly happy/smiling. Is some point being made there?

People happy to share their work. Is that some kind of problem?

The video doesn't look like that, it looks more like everyone was told "you have to smile more!!"
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