FASTER is a new trans-pacific cable system, landing at Chikura and Shima in Japan and seamlessly connecting many neighboring cable systems to extend the capacity beyond Japan to other Asian locations, and reaching major hubs on the US West Coast covering the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle areas.

FASTER features the latest high-quality 6-fiber-pair cable and 100Gb/s x 100 wavelengths optical transmission technologies, with an initial design capacity of 60Tb/s.

The FASTER consortium is comprised of China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, Google, KDDI and SingTel.

The total investment for the FASTER cable system is estimated to be approximately USD $300 million, and FASTER is targeted to be ready-for-service during the second quarter of 2016.