Globe Telekom, Bharti Airtel, ve Reliance Communications firmalarının dahil olduğu bir anlaşmada yaklaşık 400 milyon dolar tutacak bir anlaşmaya imza atıldı. Asya kıtasına deniz altından uluslar arası bir kablo sistemi döşenmesi amaçlı oluştutulan dev projede Google ve KDDI Corp firmalarının da imzası bulunuyor.

Güneydoğu Asya-Japonya Kablosu adı verilen sistem saniyede 17 terabit kapasiteli olacak ve bu ileride 23 terabite yükseltilebilecek. 2012′nin ikinci çeyreğinde bitmesi planlanan proje için imza atan firmalar oluşturulan projenin şimdiye kadar yapılmış en yüksek kapasiteli sistem olduğunu belirttiler.

83 000 kilometre uzunluğundaki kablo sistemi sayesinde Singapur, Hong Kong, Endonezya, Filipinler ve Japonya gibi ülkeler daha hızlı bir internet erişimine kavuşacak. (Hürriyet)

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Bharti, RComm in Google’s 23 kbps submarine cable consortium

A consortium including Google and KDDI Corp of Japan yesterday signed a deal to build and operate a $400 million international undersea cable system. Globe Telecom part owned by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd and Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications units are also part of the consortium.

The cable system, having a design capacity of 17 Terabits per second (Tbps) is named Southeast Asia Japan Cable, and can be upgraded to 23 Tbps, the highest capacity system to be built, the companies said in a joint statement.

The system is scheduled to become operational by the second quarter of 2012.

According to the statement the 83,000 km-long cable system would provide faster and more efficient broadband connectivity across Asia initially linking Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines and Japan.

Reliance Globalcom president and CEO, Punit Garg said that the company would now be uniquely positioned to provide customers voice, internet and data services across the entire Asian continent connecting the top 10 key business markets in Asia Pacific. (11 December 2009)

Netbook adı verilen küçük dizüstü bilgisayarlar için tasarlanan bu işletim sistemi, Microsoft’un işletim sistemi yazılımı olan Windows’un ve bununla birlikte ofis yazılımlarının pabucunu dama atacak. Netbook için hazırlanan işletim sistemi bu kadar güçlenebilir mi? Evet güçlenecek, mobil internet artık her yere, her çantaya girecek. Ekonomik olması yönüyle de laptopların da devri kapanacak. 1 kilodan hafif ve internetle ilgili her işi yapmaya imkân sağlayan netbooklar varken 3 kilodan ağır, ve 14-15 boyutlarında bir laptopu taşımayı kim ister ki?

(Microsoft’un batış ya da büzülme süreciyle ilgili yazılara ara ara devam edeceğim. Bu tezimi güçlendiren bir çok sebep var çünkü…)

Chrome OS’un ne olduğunu anlatan reklam filmini mutlaka izleyin!

Chrome OS adı verilen işletim sistemiyle ilgili bugün yayınlanan bazı notları da ekleyelim:

Google’s Strange and Shiny New OS

Google is kicking its way into the operating system world with Chrome OS, an open source system that works almost entirely online. It says Chrome OS cuts down on things like malware and data loss, though privacy and Internet access may become issues. Meanwhile, “Modern Warfare 2″ exploded, Psystar’s legal defense imploded and Verizon’s lawyers unloaded.

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) just keeps invading new territories, and its latest target is your computer’s operating system. It’s officially released the open source code for its Chrome OS, an operating system that will turn up in third-party vendors’ netbooks. Those devices should start selling next year.

With Chrome, Google takes a very different approach than major OSes like Windows, Mac OS, or even most Linux distributions. It’s sort of like what would happen if an Ubuntu mated with a Firefox. It’s basically a browser that does not run on an operating system — it is an operating system. All its apps are Web apps, and all the data you save using it is stored in the cloud, in a state of statelessness, as Google puts it. Very little data is actually saved on the computer’s hard drive.

The advantage, as Google describes it, is that boot-up times are extremely quick. Security is also easier to handle. If you aren’t hosting any data yourself, you also aren’t hosting any malware. Finally, if someone steals your Chrome netbook, and your password is nice and safe, then you’ll be able to reclaim all your data and settings simply by signing on to another Chrome netbook — which you’ll have to buy, of course, but some data’s worth more than a few hundred bucks.

The disadvantage is that a Chrome netbook probably can’t do a whole lot if you don’t have Web access. Then there’s the matter of privacy, with all your data stored on someone else’s servers.

Either way, Google doesn’t seem to be saying that Chrome is where you should live all the time. It’s described the first batch of netbooks arriving next year as companion devices, so that thirty-pound Mac Pro of yours in the basement doesn’t have much to worry about just yet.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Googles-Strange-and-Shiny-New-OS-68707.html