How Google is building the fastest internet cable to cross the Atlantic

mdnaquibalam · 发表于 2019-04-14 17:39:40

Edited by mdnaquibalam at 2019-04-14 18:03

[img src="/storage/emulated/0/Download/jacob-buller-496669-unsplash.webp"][br]Photo by Jacob Buller on Unsplash[br][br]Data flows under the oceans. To get from the US to Europe, for example, internet traffic doesn’t beam by satellite—it rushes through subsea cables. There are about[a href="https://www2.telegeography.com/submarine-cable-faqs-frequently-asked-questions"] [/a]378 of these , and the information that travels through them does so on glass fiber. While many of these tubes cross the Atlantic, Google is building a new one that they say will be the highest-capacity cable to snake under that ocean. Here’s what to know about how it will work.[br][br][strong]From the US to France[/strong][br][br]The cable will be called Dunant—after the founder of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant—and it will stretch from the United States to France over some 3,977 miles. Since it’s a private Google cable, it will (unsurprisingly) be a part of Google’s network, connecting data centers, carrying internal data, and more. All of that means that if you’re in the US and you send an email to someone in Europe, the information for that note could someday travel over this cable.[br][br]