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United States : GOOGLE to build BRAZIL-US submarine cable [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Google has declared its participation in an undersea cable that will link the United States and Brazil by year-end 2016. Google will associate with Brazilian ISP Algar Telecom, Uruguayan incumbent telco Antel, and the Angola Cables consortium of Angolan ISPs. The cable will be competent of carrying a total of 64 terabits per second of capacity over six fibre pairs. The Angola Cables group targets to link the US-Brazil cable to its scheduled South Atlantic Cable System (SACS), which would connect Brazil to Africa in 2016. This declaration marks the second time this year that Google has exposed its association in building a major submarine cable system. In August 2014, Google and five carriers from Asia launched programs for the FASTER cable. FASTER is slated to connect the West Coast of the US to Japan in Q2 2016. Google had earlier served as a primary investor in two other submarine cable systems, one connecting across the Pacific and one connecting nations in Southeast Asia. Traditionally, carriers and ISPs drove development of submarine cables. In recent years, however, Internet content providers such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have significantly improved the size of their internal networks to accommodate the massive traffic volumes generated by their customers. These private networks enable content providers to ship traffic around the globe before handing it off to ISPs. Data from TeleGeography s Global Bandwidth Research Service reveal that in 2013, capacity on the private networks of firms like Google raised by 70% on the Atlantic and Pacific, while capacity on traditional Internet backbone and carrier networks increased by only 22%. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |