Google to build longest Undersea Cable in the World

Alphabet’s Google is all set to build world’s longest undersea cable Connecting United States, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay to bolster Internet connection capacity between these regions.

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The cable, called Firmina, will be the longest cable in the world and it will run from the East Coast of the United States to Las Toninas, Argentina, with additional landings in Praia Grande, Brazil, and Punta del Este, Uruguay.

A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea, also lake or lagoon.

The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried telegraphy traffic, establishing the first instant telecommunications links between continents, such as the first transatlantic telegraph cable which became operational on 16 August 1858.

Subsequent generations of cables carried telephone traffic, then data communications traffic. Modern cables use optical fibre technology to carry digital data, which includes telephone, Internet and private data traffic.