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

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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/

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.

Translated link - http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...

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

Somewhere in-between those points, I'm guessing:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/01/nsas-google-wo...

They probably get half of the strands, to mirror all the data passing through the other half.

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

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.

or Youtube streams...

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

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.

"Wow, that's fast!"

Sure, at least 3x the speed of light... :-p

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