"Japan - Guam - Australia": Google is laying a new submarine cable
Google has announced its intention to lay a submarine cable JGA, which will connect Japan, Guam and Australia. Investing in a new communications system is another step toward spreading cloud influence in the Asia-Pacific region.
More information about JGA and other Google projects will tell under the cut.
/ photo by Nick Birse CC
')
The goal of this global project is to provide company services to as many users as possible, including in Asia, as the amount of data in the world is constantly increasing .
The JGA will consist of four fiber pairs: two of them will be laid from Japan to Guam, and another two from Guam to Sydney. Cable capacity will be 36 Tbit / s, and the total length - 9.5 thousand km.
The project is scheduled for completion by the end of 2019. The cost has not been disclosed.
To date, Google has laid 160 thousand kilometers of fiber optic cables in 15 regions of the world. The new "family member" of submarine cables JGA will be connected to other cables: Indigo (from Singapore to Sydney), HK-G (from Hong Kong to Guam) and SJC (from Japan to Singapore). The idea of ​​the project is to “lock in a ring” the key markets of Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore and provide users with high-speed access to services and platforms from Google. This entire network is also part of Google’s extensive cable infrastructure in the APAC region. It includes Unity (Japan - USA), Faster (west coast of the USA - Japan) and PLCN (Los Angeles - Hong Kong).
In addition to Google, NEC Corporation, Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) and Nokia are participating in the JGA project. A consortium consisting of AARnet (Australian operator ), Google and RTI Connectivity (Japanese company), and the northern (JGA-North) only RTI-C participates in laying the southern cable segment (JGA-South).
Philippe Piron, president of ASN, commented : “We are pleased to collaborate with RTI, AARNet and Google on the JGA project. Together we can provide high-bandwidth connectivity in the Asia-Pacific region. ” He was supported by Russ Matulich, president and executive director of RTI Connectivity, who noted that JGA will help to cope with the processing of increasing volumes of data.
Toru Kawauchi, general manager of the NEC submarine cable division, said the company is proud to work on a similar project. In general, we have already written about NEC's contribution to the development of submarine cables in one of the previous materials. The organization runs the SJC2 cable (Japan - Singapore with a length of 10.5 thousand km).
The bandwidth of SJC2 will be equal to 144 Tbit / s , which will allow , for example, to stream almost 6 million high-definition videos.
/ photo National Museum of the US Navy PD
In addition to JGA, Google is working on three more cables: Curie, Havfrue and HK-G. Together, they will provide access to Google-services in 5 more regions.
The first cable, Curie, is named after the Nobel Prize winner Maria Sklodowska-Curie . This cable will allow Google to become the first non-telecommunications company to lay a private intercontinental cable.
Curie, which consists of four fiber-optic pairs, will run between Los Angeles and Chile and will serve users in Latin America. The company claims that Curie will be the first cable to go through Chile in the last 20 years. In the future, with the help of Curie, the IT giant plans to connect Panama.
The second cable was called Havfrue, which means “mermaid” in Danish. Facebook, Aqua Comms (Irish provider ) and Bulk Infrastructure (Norwegian enterprise ) will join the project.
Havfrue directly connects the United States with Denmark and Ireland. The cable will be laid by the American organization TE SubCom . The throughput capacity of Havfrue is 108 Tbit / s.
The unification of the companies RTI-C, NEC and Google has also been laying the third cable since April 2017 - HK-G. Its design capacity is 48 Tbps, and it will connect Hong Kong and Guam. It is expected that all three cables will be launched in 2019.
PS A couple of fresh posts from the First Corporate IaaS blog:
PPS Related materials from our blog on Habré:
More information about JGA and other Google projects will tell under the cut.
/ photo by Nick Birse CC
')
The goal of this global project is to provide company services to as many users as possible, including in Asia, as the amount of data in the world is constantly increasing .
The JGA will consist of four fiber pairs: two of them will be laid from Japan to Guam, and another two from Guam to Sydney. Cable capacity will be 36 Tbit / s, and the total length - 9.5 thousand km.
The project is scheduled for completion by the end of 2019. The cost has not been disclosed.
To date, Google has laid 160 thousand kilometers of fiber optic cables in 15 regions of the world. The new "family member" of submarine cables JGA will be connected to other cables: Indigo (from Singapore to Sydney), HK-G (from Hong Kong to Guam) and SJC (from Japan to Singapore). The idea of ​​the project is to “lock in a ring” the key markets of Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore and provide users with high-speed access to services and platforms from Google. This entire network is also part of Google’s extensive cable infrastructure in the APAC region. It includes Unity (Japan - USA), Faster (west coast of the USA - Japan) and PLCN (Los Angeles - Hong Kong).
Who else is involved in the JGA project
In addition to Google, NEC Corporation, Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) and Nokia are participating in the JGA project. A consortium consisting of AARnet (Australian operator ), Google and RTI Connectivity (Japanese company), and the northern (JGA-North) only RTI-C participates in laying the southern cable segment (JGA-South).
Philippe Piron, president of ASN, commented : “We are pleased to collaborate with RTI, AARNet and Google on the JGA project. Together we can provide high-bandwidth connectivity in the Asia-Pacific region. ” He was supported by Russ Matulich, president and executive director of RTI Connectivity, who noted that JGA will help to cope with the processing of increasing volumes of data.
Toru Kawauchi, general manager of the NEC submarine cable division, said the company is proud to work on a similar project. In general, we have already written about NEC's contribution to the development of submarine cables in one of the previous materials. The organization runs the SJC2 cable (Japan - Singapore with a length of 10.5 thousand km).
The bandwidth of SJC2 will be equal to 144 Tbit / s , which will allow , for example, to stream almost 6 million high-definition videos.
/ photo National Museum of the US Navy PD
Other underwater Google projects
In addition to JGA, Google is working on three more cables: Curie, Havfrue and HK-G. Together, they will provide access to Google-services in 5 more regions.
The first cable, Curie, is named after the Nobel Prize winner Maria Sklodowska-Curie . This cable will allow Google to become the first non-telecommunications company to lay a private intercontinental cable.
Curie, which consists of four fiber-optic pairs, will run between Los Angeles and Chile and will serve users in Latin America. The company claims that Curie will be the first cable to go through Chile in the last 20 years. In the future, with the help of Curie, the IT giant plans to connect Panama.
The second cable was called Havfrue, which means “mermaid” in Danish. Facebook, Aqua Comms (Irish provider ) and Bulk Infrastructure (Norwegian enterprise ) will join the project.
Havfrue directly connects the United States with Denmark and Ireland. The cable will be laid by the American organization TE SubCom . The throughput capacity of Havfrue is 108 Tbit / s.
The unification of the companies RTI-C, NEC and Google has also been laying the third cable since April 2017 - HK-G. Its design capacity is 48 Tbps, and it will connect Hong Kong and Guam. It is expected that all three cables will be launched in 2019.
PS A couple of fresh posts from the First Corporate IaaS blog:
- IaaS in the tourism industry: cases of global companies
- 9 useful tips for a smooth transition to the cloud
- Unboxing a Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server: A Photo Review
PPS Related materials from our blog on Habré:
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/353026/
All Articles