US and China to do a direct 1.28GB connection

Packets traveling between the US and China will soon have less hops skips and jumps to slow them.  It will be interesting to see which of the 2 nations changes more as a result of the connection. I’m betting both will benefit economically if the 2 governments can resist the temptation to manage or regulate.

THE FIRST direct fibre-optic undersea cable to China has received regulatory approval to make landfall on the US West Coast.

Named the Trans-Pacific Express (TPE), the cable link is the first next-generation optical cable system to span the Pacific to China and will be the first undersea cable system to land on the US West Coast in seven years. (from the Register)