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Google announces new subsea cable systems for the Americas

Google announces new subsea cable systems for the Americas

Google has announcing a major expansion of its global network infrastructure in the Americas with three new subsea cable systems: Alisios, Canoa and OlaLuz.

It says that these systems, alongside a new branch for the Firmina cable (linking the US to Argentina, with landings in Brazil and Uruguay) and previous investments in Curie (Chile, Panama, US), Nuvem (Portugal, Bermuda, US) and Sol (US, Bermuda, the Azores, Spain) form Americas Connect.

The Alisios subsea cable system will connect the Dominican Republic, Panama, and Chile. It will interlink with a ring from the Dominican Republic to the US East Coast and Google Cloud regions in South Carolina and Virginia.

Canoa will connect the Dominican Republic to Bermuda. When combined with the Nuvem and Sol cable systems, Google says the Canoa cable will enable a highly reliable and resilient connection from Latin America and the Caribbean directly to Europe and North America. 

The OlaLuz subsea cable system will connect the Dominican Republic directly to Florida. Google says this new route significantly strengthens network capacity between the Caribbean and the US East Coast.

To further strengthen network diversity, Google is also introducing a new branch of the Firmina subsea cable that will land directly in the Dominican Republic. Firmina was originally built to connect North and South America. This new branch extends Firmina’s high-capacity reach and brings additional network connectivity to the Caribbean.

Google adds that in the Pacific, a subsea ring will create redundant paths connecting Chile to Panama with a third link from Panama to the US West Coast, providing connectivity to Google Cloud regions in Chile, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas.



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