Google To Construct Three Undersea Cables In 2019

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Google has announced that they will be commissioning three new subsea cables in 2019. Curie, a private cable connecting Chile to Los Angeles; Havfrue, a consortium cable connecting the U.S. to Denmark and Ireland; and the Hong Kong-Guam Cable system (HK-G), a consortium cable interconnecting major subsea communication hubs in Asia.

Pretty massive investment. The blog post states that Google has spent $30 billion in the last 3 years improving their infrastructure, and that their network delivers 25% of worldwide internet traffic, crazy. So why did they scrap plans to expand Google Fiber again?

These new investments expand our existing cloud network. The Google network has over 100 points of presence (map) and over 7,500 edge caching nodes (map). This investment means faster and more reliable connectivity for all our users.
 
didn't they piggy back on AT&T's infrastructure?
 
So they will be able to steal data from us at an even faster rate than they do now! AWESME!

(pssst,...I deliberately mispelled that word to confuse them,....ya know,....the ones watching us. put that in you analytical pipe and smoke it you ass hats!)
 
Take my data.....oh I'm using a VPN....ok take my Facebook status and let me download my games faster.
 
rgMekanic said:
So why did they scrap plans to expand Google Fiber again?
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Because there's no local government body for Comcast or Verizon to bribe, err I mean 'donate' to overseeing the territory in the oceans with corporate written regulations. Thus making it easier to lay the lines and much cheaper. If only America would have a national regulation that Obama proposed to fix this problem... or even better, nationalized internet like a few other modern nations have that companies pay to use/maintain instead of having each company make their own lines in the same areas that already have the lines needed, just owned by a competitor. Nations that either do the latter or have goals to achieve it more or less already are the UK, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Spain, Switerzland, Belgium, Sweden, and Finland.
 
..also tells you that <yeah obvious> google wants to get into amazons territory. AWS doesnt mean "as we speak "or "American Welding Society". Amazon web services is one of the most profitable of amazons companies. Larger than IBM. Far larger. So if they have the pipes to move data fast to more places, who may want to use the pipes?

Googlezon? Amaoogle? Hmmmm....
 
https://blog.google/topics/google-c...infrastructure-new-regions-and-subsea-cables/

Just read the article. It seems like this won't have much effect on the typical consumer, more for Google's cloud customers. I didn't even know Google had an AWS type cloud service.

Anyways, how exactly does this help their customers? At the end it says "Simply put, it wouldn’t be possible to deliver products like Machine Learning Engine, Spanner, BigQuery and other Google Cloud Platform and G Suite services at the quality of service users expect without the Google network. Our cable systems provide the speed, capacity and reliability Google is known for"

Why wouldn't it be possible? This is simply to increase bandwidth over oceans?
 
ZeqOBpf6 said:
https://blog.google/topics/google-c...infrastructure-new-regions-and-subsea-cables/

Just read the article. It seems like this won't have much effect on the typical consumer, more for Google's cloud customers. I didn't even know Google had an AWS type cloud service.

Anyways, how exactly does this help their customers? At the end it says "Simply put, it wouldn’t be possible to deliver products like Machine Learning Engine, Spanner, BigQuery and other Google Cloud Platform and G Suite services at the quality of service users expect without the Google network. Our cable systems provide the speed, capacity and reliability Google is known for"

Why wouldn't it be possible? This is simply to increase bandwidth over oceans?
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its kinda like what happened when jets connected folks. The world became a smaller place. Now when milliseconds count, having their own dedicated pipe, makes going to them a better proposition then depending on telecoms that still have to supply their 'voice' services. I dont believe google cloud services are close to aws.....but their presence make a difference.

Hmmmm, wall street made money by building a private optical connection to one of the financial nodes. The difference of a tenth of a millisecond translated into billion of dollars. Google wants to do the same....somewhat.
 
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