China expands Internet backbone to improve speeds, reliability

Even as China cuts access to some foreign online services, it is laying more fiber optic cables to improve its connection to global Internet networks.China recently added seven new access points to the world’s Internet backbone, adding to the three points that connect through Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced on Monday.To expand its Internet backbone networks, China laid over 3,000 kilometers worth of fiber optic cabl