Google has announced Project Apricot will link Japan, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore with 7,456 miles of network cable. Facebook is also involved in the project, having partly funded the project.
Facebook announced two transpacific subsea cables in March - Bifrost and Echo - that connect Singapore to the West Coast of the US. Google was involved in Echo, which is a complementary submarine system to its Apricot cable.
Apricot has an initial design capacity of more than 190 terabits per second, according to Facebook, and will improve the resilience of Google Cloud and the companies' other digital services.
While both companies have already invested substantially in undersea infrastructure, the latest investment is expected to go online in 2024.
Source: IT Pro
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