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Google and Facebook are teaming up to build a 120 Terabits per second (Tbps) submarine cable that will connect Los Angeles with Hong Kong. The two companies are working with Pacific Light Data Communication a wholly owned subsidiary of China Soft Power Technology that’s relatively new to the sub-sea cable game.

The cable will stretch over a total of 12,800 km, to support the region’s highest-capacity route.  Construction is scheduled to start in 2018 and is estimated to cost no $400 billion.

The pacific line cable network (PLCN) will be composed of five pairs of fiber lines, with each pair putting out 24 Tbps at maximum. Google, as well as the other companies involved, will each have a pair for themselves.

While Google to partner with Facebook on this kind of project, submarine cables often features these kind of partnerships. Facebook and Microsoft recently teamed up to build a trans-Atlantic cable, which at 160 Tbps is even faster than the Pacific Light cable.

Amazon is starting to invest in its own submarine cables, but so far, the company has not partnered with other industry giants to do so.

Google said, the new cable will bring lower latency and greater bandwidth to its customers in the APAC region. The same can be said for Facebook’s customers, too, of course.