Google, a fiber cable between the USA and Europe
Grace Hopper between the USA and Europe
A large ship, tens of thousands of kilometers of fiber (32 bundles coupled) and a millionaire investment, for a construction site destined to close no earlier than 2022.VATICAN
The same name is significant, since it refers to Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906– 1992), historical name of the world of computer science (without going to deepen it, we leave you with his profile on Wikipedia). A deserving tribute, behind which lies a project of great importance for what the Google cloud offer wants to be in the future. "Grace Hopper" is added to the Curie (California, Panama, Chile), Dunant (USA, France) and Equiano (Portugal, Nigeria, South Africa) submarine cables, considerably increasing Google's ability to unite the US territory with the rest of the world through very high speed and very high capacity cables, as well as useful to guarantee greater safety and resilience to the services offered.
In this case, the choice appears strategic: the new cable connects New York to Spain: Portugal could have been chosen to shorten the route, but in reality Google wanted to maximize all the objectives pursued:
connect to the european territory, and Bilbao is in a strategic position to reach the heart of the old continent; connect to the cloud region Spanish directly connect the United Kingdom, is now formally outside the EU From Google Cloud to a Meet , going to Gmail and any other services offered by the group, leveraging a new type of technology that should ensure the connection with a greater capacity of reaction in case of technical problems: reliability is an essential value in front of the investment of this caliber.
In recent days, Google had also announced the intention to take advantage of its submarine cables to investigate the earthquakes and monitor possible earthquakes to predict the tsunami and the study of the tremors recorded on a daily basis. While in the past this was feasible only on small sections, now Google believes it can implement new methods that abiliterebbero these surveys in a radius of thousands of miles: in all likelihood this type of technology will be applied to the new Grace Hopper, thus providing a continuous monitoring on the seabed and on the state of health of the cables.
