Google announces the installation of a submarine cable connecting the US, Spain and the UK

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Installation work for a new submarine cable known as the Grace Hopper is complete, which connects the United States of America, Spain and the United Kingdom, American company Google announced this on Tuesday.

The project will connect New York with the British city of Bude and the Spanish municipality of Bilbao. NS According to forecasts, the 16 installed fiber pairs should improve the resistance of Google’s network.

The official statement ensures that “Grace Hopper represents a new generation of transatlantic cable.”

This submarine cable is expected to positively impact the California-based company’s planning and preparation for its customers’ future capacity needs, meeting the demands of growing connectivity and broadband services.

“The cable will use a novel ‘fiber switching’, which allows us to better move traffic around obstacles for greater reliability”.

Points to another hope More agile and secure movement of information between the US and Europe, thus increasing capacity and enhancing Google services Like Meet, Gmail and Google Cloud.

Grace Hopper will find a new job Multidimensional Switching Architecture Which will put the company in a better position of network resilience and resistance.

(with information from RT in Spanish)