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Googleis place to builda new subsea cable connecting Chile with Australia , via Gallic Polynesia — the first such line to directly tie in South America with Asia - Pacific .
dub “ Humboldt , ” after German polymath and explorerAlexander von Humboldt , the new cable is the latest in more than a dozensimilar subsea cable that Google has invested inover the preceding 15 years , a journeying that complain off in 2010with Unitythat dilute some 6,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean from California to Japan .
Whilecountless other hero sandwich cable television service traversethe Pacific Ocean , they substantively join Asia with North America , though some do snake down the Pacific sea-coast from the U.S and Mexico to various landing place points in the South of the continent . Indeed , Google fill in itsfirst entirely privatecable project four year ago with Curie , connect California with Chile .
Google has n’t given any indication as to when Humboldt will be complete , but rather than go it alone as it has done with other recent cable projects , the net giant is partner with Chile’sDesarrollo Paísand Office des postes et télécommunications de Polynésie française ( OPT ) to lay the 9,200 mile ( 14,800 KM ) cable .
As with its other alike endeavor , Humboldt is design to improve data transfer of training around the world , working in tandem with Google ’s other base project , including local data midpoint on the reason in Chile — it ’s all about promise its customers humbled - latency , while the countries themselves benefit from a more robust cyberspace substructure .
Tech companies including Meta , Microsoft and Amazon have also induct in various net base programs , and alongside Google the quartetare said to either own or leasearound half of all subsea cable bandwidth .
