REUTERS reports that Google Inc plans to unveil a small set-top box that resembles products like Roku, Amazon's Fire TV, and Apple Inc's Apple TV, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Google will display the set-top box on Wednesday June 25 (today) during its developer conference, the Journal said.
The set-top box is expected to be driven by Google's new Android TV software that has been designed to play movies, games and other content on television. It is not clear which company’s brand name the device will carry.
All tech companies, from Microsoft Corp to Apple, are now targeting space on the TV - the traditional family entertainment center where people used to spend most of their leisure time.
In December 2012, Google sold its set-top TV box maker Motorola Home to Arris Group Inc for US$2.35bil.
Wants new subsea cable
With technology companies sending unprecedented amounts of data across private networks, Google is now considering an investment in a new subsea cable to connect data centres in Oregon and Japan.
This is not the first time the technology giant will show interest in such a facility. Google took a stake in a similar US$300mil (RM964.2mil) cable in 2010.
While private networks are commonly used for home, office and business, as they provide security for vital information and cannot be accessed by devices outside the network, the need for larger capacity infrastructure to handle larger traffic has become imperative.
On a public network, anyone can access and or connect to other networks or the Internet.
A lot of Google's bandwidth is reserved for its private 'B4' network, which transmits e-mails, YouTube videos among other data, the report said. The network carries more traffic than the public-facing one the company uses to transmit search results to the Internet, the WSJ reported. Reuters
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