Access to Google services in South America promises to make a leap in quality. The Mountain View corporation announced Firmina, a submarine cable that will run from the United States to Argentina . The project is already underway, with the cable in the middle of the construction process.
The Californian firm assures that Firmina will be the longest cable in the world with the capacity to work completely “with a single source of energy” at one end. In this way, connectivity will be guaranteed, even if the other power resources are temporarily unavailable.
Google's new submarine cable will depart from the East Coast of the United States and will reach Las Toninas, Buenos Aires province, an anchoring site for submarine cables in Argentina. In addition, it will have ramifications towards Praia Grande in Brazil and Punta del Este in Uruguay.
Google's submarine cables expand its global presence
Logically, Firmina is not Google's first submarine cable, nor is it the first that connects the United States with South America. In 2019, the Californian company announced the construction of Curie , which stretches from North America to Chile and branches out to Panama. With this addition, those of Mountain View already have 16 submarine cables distributed throughout the world
With 12 pairs of fiber optics, Firmina will transport traffic quickly and safely between North and South America, giving users fast, low-latency access to Google products such as Search, Gmail, and YouTube, as well as Google services. Cloud.
Google An important point to highlight is that Firmina aims to establish itself as an innovation in energy management. As we already mentioned, it is the longest submarine cable in the world capable of being fully operational receiving power only from one end .
According to Google, this is achieved by supplying the cable with a 20% higher voltage than that intended for previous designs. This ensures reliability in the process of transmitting data underwater; even when there is a problem and the high voltage electrical current required to amplify the light pulses traveling through the optical fiber in sections.
