Nice!
I gotta wonder if it gets choked once it reaches the states.
Sort of. Not by design/on purpose though.
Though it seems majority of the Asian countries have done excellent jobs of beefing up internal infrastructure, the cables to/from those countries that head towards US based IPs haven't really (or at least, not enough to keep up with demand.
US Gateway routers or connections to them are, for the most part, slow*.
* Though, hundreds of thousands (millions) of people using data traffic (net/voip) across a underwater cable and you still get 6mbps shouldn't really be considered slow, eh?