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Google to build first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting Africa with Australia

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Google to build first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting Africa with Australia

TechnologyEnglish · 1 month ago

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Google to build first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting Africa with Australia | TechCrunch

Google is set to build Umoja, the first subsea fibre optic cable connecting the continents of Africa and Australia.

Google is set to build Umoja, the first subsea fibre optic cable connecting the continents of Africa and Australia.

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That’s a very long cable.
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  ~8000km cable, 300,000km/s speed of light = ~2ms to travel that distance. Pretty decent.
  
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Quick! Before China does it!

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