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Google is making further investments in
undersea fiber optic cable to develop its
network connectivity around the world.
The company has announced that it will
partly fund the Indigo project to connect
Jakarta, Singapore, Perth and Sydney.
The cable will run for approximately
9,000km (almost 5,600 miles) and provide
a capacity of roughly 18Tb per second.
Google has now invested in five submarine
cables in the Asia-Pacific region and
seven overall.
With this investment thecompany hopes to
better compete with other cloud providers
and consumer Internet companies.
Alcatel Submarine Networks will build the
cable, expected to be operational by
mid-2019. Other Indigo investors include
the cable company SubPartners and ISPs
AARNet, Indosat Ooredoo, Singtel and
Telstra.
Only Google and its fellow investors will
use Indigo, though Singtel and Telstra will
sell capacity to their customers as part of
their telecom businesses.
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