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Google Announces New Subsea Cable 'Equiano', Connecting Africa and Europe (reuters.com) 30

Alphabet's Google on Friday announced a new subsea cable dubbed "Equiano" that will connect Africa with Europe, as it boosts its cloud computing infrastructure. From a report: Equiano, fully funded by Google, is the company's third private international cable. The search engine giant, which has invested $47 billion in improving its global technology infrastructure over the last three years, said Equiano is the company's 14th subsea cable investment globally. "Equiano will be the first subsea cable to incorporate optical switching at the fiber-pair level, rather than the traditional approach of wavelength-level switching," Google said in a blog post.
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Google Announces New Subsea Cable 'Equiano', Connecting Africa and Europe

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  • by Anonymous Coward

    Because that is the distance between Gibraltar in the south of Spain, and Africa.

  • by Anonymous Coward

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  • by b0bby ( 201198 ) on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:22PM (#58841390)

    To save you having to click the link:
    "...the first phase of the project, connecting South Africa with Portugal, is expected to be completed in 2021"

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