wiredInUSA February 2018

Powering the cloud

Google has announced plans to build three new subsea cables as part of its investment drive for cloud infrastructure. With the news that it will be adding a further five regions to its network – which, the company claims, already delivers 25 percent of worldwide Internet traffic – the additional cable investment will be essential to maintain and improve performance. Regions in the Netherlands and Montreal areset toopen inearly2018, followedbyLos Angeles, Finland and Hong Kong. This will be followed in 2019 by the implementation of the three subsea cables. Curie (namedafterMarieCurie) is aprivate cable connecting Chile to Los Angeles. Designed, deployed and launched

for the company by TE SubCom, the four fiber-pair system will span over 10,000km, linking Los Angeles, California, to Valparaiso, Chile, and will include a branching unit for future connectivity to Panama. Once deployed, Curie will be Chile’s largest single data pipe, serving users and customers across Latin America. The Hong Kong to Guam Cable System (HK-G), for which Google is partnering with RTI-C and NEC, is a consortium cable, interconnecting major subsea communication hubs in Asia. Together with the planned Indigo system, the new cable will increase the organization’s resilience in the Pacific.

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