Google finishes laying a giant undersea internet cable stretching 3,900 miles from New York to the UK and Spain
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Isobel Asher Hamilton
Sep 15, 2021, 17:28 IST
A buoy at the end of the Grace Hopper subsea cable sits on the beach in Bude, UK.
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Google finished laying its Grace Hopper subsea internet cable in the UK on Tuesday.
The 3,900-mile Grace Hopper cable starts in New York and has landing points in the UK and Spain.
The cable is due to ferry up to 350 terabytes of data per second when it comes online, Google said.
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Google has finished laying its giant Grace Hopper subsea internet cable, which stretches from New York to the UK and Spain.
The Grace Hopper cable was landed in Bude, Cornwall, on the UK's western coast on Tuesday. A Google spokesperson told Insider that the landing was originally scheduled for July. Another end of the cable landed in Bilbao, Spain, earlier in September.
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Google said at that time that the cable was set to transport between 340 and 350 terabytes of data per second, or roughly equivalent to 17.5 million people simultaneously streaming 4K video.
The company also said the cable would use a new technique called "fibre switching," which should make web traffic more reliable even with outages.
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A Google spokesperson said the cable is due to come online in 2022.
Grace Hopper isn't the only Google cable linking the US with Europe. In February, the company announced that its "Dunant" cable connecting the US with France was ready for service.
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