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In commitments to connecting the world and serving its Cloud customers, Google said it has spent over $30 billion on improving its infrastructural base from data centers to subsea cables, and it is not done yet.
The Internet giant announced it will be commissioning three new submarine cables to add to its already existing ones to make a total of eleven in efforts to further expand its cloud network
“Today we’re excited to announce that we’re adding three new submarine cables,” Google said in a blog post announcing developments to open regions in the Netherlands and Montreal, followed by Los Angeles, Finland, and Hong Kong, in the first quarter of 2018.
“In 2019 we’ll commission three subsea cables: 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.
“Together, these investments further improve our network – the world’s largest – which by some accounts delivers 25% of worldwide internet traffic. Companies like PayPal leverage our network and infrastructure to run their businesses effectively,” the Internet search giant stated.
Google said the three new subsea cable investments, indicated by three yellow lines in the diagram above, will serve to further expand its existing cloud network.
TheNewsGuru reports Google network has over 100 points of presence and over 7,500 edge caching nodes. Google subsea cables provide reliability, speed and security to users.
“This investment means faster and more reliable connectivity for all our users,” Google said.
“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 worldwide, and at Google Cloud, our customers are able to make use of the same network infrastructure that powers Google’s own services.
“While we haven’t hastened the speed of light, we have built a superior cloud network as a result of the well-provisioned direct paths between our cloud and end-users.
“We’re excited about these improvements. We’re increasing our commitment to ensure users have the best connections in this increasingly connected world,” Google added.