New Google undersea web cable will boost capacity and resilience on busy transatlantic route.
Google has announced it is building a new undersea web cable connecting the United States,United Kingdom and Spain. Once constructed, the private web cable will become the fifth in Google’s expanding roster — currently made up of Curie, Dunant, Equiano and Junior — designed to improve the resilience of networks that prop up the company’s consumer and enterprise products. The new undersea web cable has been named Grace Hopper, after the American computer scientist responsible for programming language COBOL, and will be the first laid between the US and UK since 2003. The project also marks Google’s first investment in a submarine cable docking in Spain and will serve to knit the upcoming Google Cloud region in Madrid with the company’s wider global infrastructure.
