Google and Orange plan to build undersea cable between France and US
Google and Orange will team up to work on a 6,600km undersea cable that will connect the US and France and enter into operation in 2020.
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Orange will build and operate the landing station on the French coast and provide the backhaul service to Paris.
The undersea cable, named Dunant, will provide Orange alone with a capacity of “more than 30 terabits per second, per [fibre] pair to transfer a 1GB movie file in 30 microseconds”, the company said.
The cable will be Google’s fourth completely private undersea cable. The cables can provide better performance, latency and capacity for its cloud customers. And with this long distance cable allow it to ensure that its landing points are as close as possible to its Belgian and North Virginia data centres.
According to the Guardian, Stéphane Richard, the chairman and CEO of Orange said: “The role of submarine cables is often overlooked, despite their central role at the heart of our digital world. I am extremely proud to announce this collaboration with Google to build a new, cutting-edge cable between the USA and France.”
Dunant will be the first new submarine cable connecting the US to France in more than 15 years.