Facebook and Google will connect Southeast Asia with submarine cables.
Google and Facebook will build submarine cable together with local partners. It is a 12,000-kilometer submarine cable that intends to connect Japan with Taiwan, Indonesia, Guam, the Philippines and Singapore.
Google and Facebook will build submarine cable together with local partners. It is a 12,000-kilometer submarine cable that intends to connect Japan with Taiwan, Indonesia, Guam, the Philippines and Singapore.
The submarine cable extension covers the needs of 4G and 5G networks in the region, and is also designed to offer more than 190 TB per second. It is expected to start operating in 2024.
Apricot's new submarine cables will support existing cables: Echo, which connects with Indonesia; and Bifrost with Guam, which are around 1.1 million kilometers long and which is responsible for most of the global internet traffic.
“Echo and Apricot are complementary systems that will deliver multi-path benefits in and out of Asia ensuring a significantly higher degree of resilience for Google Cloud and digital services. Together they will provide businesses with lower latency, more bandwidth and greater resilience in their connectivity between Southeast Asia, North Asia and the US, ”the company states.
Google declares that this implementation will have a measurable impact on regional economic activity. In an analysis by the consulting firm Analysys Mason, its investments in networks would have generated an additional 430,000 million dollars in the aggregate GDP of the Asia Pacific region and 1.1 million additional jobs. In total, the company participates in 18 submarine cables, including the Grace Hopper project, which will link Spain with the United Kingdom and the United States in 2022.
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