Google announces that it is ready to operate the submarine cable 'Dunant' that connects the United States and France
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Internet communication speed and capacity are extremely important for major IT companies such as Google, which provides cloud services to the world. Therefore, in recent years, Google has been trying to enhance the Internet infrastructure by laying its own submarine cable, and announced on February 3, 2021 that the submarine cable ' Dunant ' connecting the United States and Europe is ready for operation. Did.
Google's Dunant subsea cable is now ready for service | Google Cloud Blog
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/googles-dunant-subsea-cable-is-now-ready-for-service
Google Dunant cable live w / deliver record-breaking capacity --9to5Google
Google launches transatlantic Dunant subsea cable as cloud sales soar | VentureBeat
https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/03/googles-transatlantic-dunant-subsea-cable-opens-as-cloud-sales-soar/
Google has long invested in a variety of Internet infrastructures to improve the quality of its services around the world. Among them, submarine cables, which have extremely large capacities and high-speed communication speeds, are estimated to carry 98% of all Internet traffic, which is important for Google, which is making money by providing cloud services.
To date, Google has invested in 15 submarine cables, and in 2019, Google's private submarine cable, Curie , was installed. Curie is a submarine cable that connects Los Angeles in the United States to Valparaiso in Chile, and has a total length of about 10,500 km.
And on February 3, 2021, Google announced that the laying of the new submarine cable 'Dunant' was completed and it was ready to provide the service. Dunant is a submarine cable that connects Virginia Beach in the United States and Saint-Hilaire-de-Rie in France and crosses the Atlantic Ocean. It is named after Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross.
Dunant is shown in red on the submarine cable map provided by TeleGeography .
Dunant has adopted a time division multiplexing (SDM) method that increases the transmission capacity by arranging multiple cores on one optical fiber, and has realized an amazing communication capacity of 250 terabits per second (Tbps). The communication capacity of 250Tbps is said to be a level that can transmit all the books in the Library of Congress that have been converted into data three times a second.
In the laying of Dunant, Google is cooperating with SubCom , a submarine cable operator who also cooperated in the laying of Curie. Initially announced in 2018, Google said it plans to complete the project in late 2020, but it was completed a few months later than planned.
In addition, Google announced the laying of the submarine cable ' Grace Hopper ' that connects the United States and Europe in July 2020, and will continue to improve the submarine cable in the future.
Google announces laying of submarine cable 'Grace Hopper' that connects the United States and Europe across the Atlantic Ocean --GIGAZINE
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