iTWire – Announcing Humboldt – the first Internet cable route between Asia Pacific and South America

iTWire – Announcing Humboldt – the first Internet cable route between Asia Pacific and South America

Google, Desarrollo País of Chile, and the Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT), have announced Humboldt, a subsea cable route linking Australia, French Polynesia, and Chile, strengthening the reliability and resilience of digital connectivity across the Pacific. The network protocols driving the Internet work on routing packets of data through many interconnected paths …

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Subsea Internet Cable Route To Link South America, Asia-Pacific

Subsea Internet Cable Route To Link South America, Asia-Pacific

Google has announced it will help build a subsea internet cable route linking Chile, French Polynesia, and Australia — the first ever to directly connect South America and Asia-Pacific. The joint venture by the Chilean construction company Desarrollo País, Google and French Polynesia’s Posts and Telecommunications Department is named the Humboldt subsea cable. Expected to …

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