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A worker supervises a copper pipe spool at NEC's OCC's plant in Kitakyushu, Japan, where cable for the Google-backed FASTER transpacific Internet cable is being manufactured.  Credit:  Tim Hornyak By  Tim Hornyak   IDG News Service   |   Jul 14, 2015  Undersea cables carry virtually all transoceanic Internet data these days, replacing satellites as the preferred medium. Google and some telecom companies have invested in one of them, called FASTER, that will stretch 9,000 kilometers (5,592 miles) between the U.S. and Japan and is due to go into operation next year. With six fiber-pairs in the cable, each carrying 100 wavelengths at 100 gigabits per second, it will have a peak capacity of 60 terabits per second (Tbps). That's about  10 million times faster than a standard cable modem . Here are some facts about undersea cables -- and about the FASTER system in particular. 1. About 99% of all transoceanic Int...