Monday 22 January 2018

Google's Global Infrastructure

Google have spent $30 billion improving their infrastructure over three years and investment is ongoing. Three new submarine cables are in process and five new regions have been added.

Netherlands and Montreal regions in the first quarter of 2018
Los Angeles, Finland, and Hong Kong – with more to come.

In 2019 they will commission three subsea cables:

  • Curie, a private cable connecting Chile to Los Angeles; 
  • Havfrue, a consortium cable connecting the U.S. to Denmark and Ireland; 
  • the Hong Kong-Guam Cable system (HK-G), a consortium cable interconnecting major subsea communication hubs in Asia.  




See the full article here
https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/expanding-our-global-infrastructure-new-regions-and-subsea-cables/