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The developing world represents the best chance of growth for large internet companies, and today one of the very biggest set out its strategy for how it plans to tackle that. Google said that it would be investing $1 billion to support “digital transformation” across Africa. This will include landing a subsea cable into the continent to enable faster internet speeds, low-interest loans for small businesses, equity investments into African startups, skills… Source link

A ship lays down a Google undersea cable Google Google is building a new subsea cable to shuttle… Source link

Google today announced its plans to build a new subsea cable that will connect the East Coast of the U.S. and Las Toninas, Argentina — with additional landings in Brazil and Uruguay. The idea here is to provide users in South America with improved low-latency access to Google’s portfolio of consumer and cloud services. The closest Google data center in the region (and its only one in South America) can be found near Santiago, Chile, which is connected to the U.S. West Coast through… Source link

The vessel used to lay one of Google’s other subsea cables. Google Facebook and Google are planning to lay two huge subsea cables that will link the U.S. West Coast to Singapore and Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s biggest economy and home to a growing number of smartphone users.  The Echo and Bifrost trans-Pacific cables will increase the data capacity between the regions by 70% and improve internet reliability, Facebook said Monday. While Facebook is investing in both cables, Google is only… Source link

Google announced its plans to build a new subsea cable with landing points in New York in the U.S. and Bude, U.K. and Bilbao, Spain in Europe. Tech giant first revealed the Curie project last January, alongside two other new cables as first major non-telecom company to build a private international cable.  The cable — named Grace Hopper after the American computer programming pioneer — will provide “better resilience for the network that underpins Google’s consumer and enterprise… Source link

Google today announced its plans to build a new subsea cable with landing points in New York in the U.S. and Bude, U.K. and Bilbao, Spain in Europe. The new cable, named after the pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper, will join Google’s various other private subsea cables like Curie between the U.S. and South America, Dunant between the U.S. and France and Equiano between Europe and Africa. The new cable is scheduled to go online in 2022 and will be built by SubCom, which… Source link

Google LLC has been exploring the possibility of using its network of undersea cables to try to detect earthquakes as they happen in real time, with the goal of providing a better early warning system for communities threatened by tsunamis. In a blog post today, Google’s global networking engineers Valey Kamalov and Mattia Cantono explained that the company operates an extensive system of fiber optic subsea cables that stretch for thousands of kilometers across the seabed. Those… Source link