Curie (submarine communications cable)
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Total length | 10,476 km [1] |
Design capacity | 72 Tbit/s |
Technology | Fibre Optic |
Date of first use | 2020 Q2 |
Curie is a private subsea communications cable owned by Google, connecting the United States to Chile and Panama. First commissioned in 2018[2] and completed in 2019,[3] Curie is Google's third fully-owned subsea cable, and Chile's first subsea cable in nearly two decades.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Curie". Submarine Cable Networks.
- ^ "Expanding our global infrastructure with new regions and subsea cables". Google Cloud Blog. 16 January 2018.
- ^ Frederic Lardinois (14 November 2019). "Google finishes the install of its private Curie cable, announces Panama branch". TechCrunch.
- ^ "Curie subsea cable set to transmit to Chile, with a pit stop to Panama". Google Cloud Blog. 14 November 2019.