Google’s subsea cable along the west coast of the Americas made landfall in Valparaiso, Chile.
The Curie Submarine Cable will be a four fiber-pair subsea system spanning over 10,000 km from Los Angeles to Valparaiso. It will include a branching unit for future connectivity to Panama. Subcom is the lead contractor.
The project is believed to be the first subsea cable to land in Chile in 20 years.
Chris Carobene, vice president of marine services and network construction at SubCom said, “Google and SubCom’s consistent teamwork allowed for mitigation of potential risks to the Curie cable system project schedule, enabling early completion of the Valparaiso landing. We look forward to continued collaboration on future projects.”
Curie is the 13th subsea cable project that Google has funded or contributed to.
Google picks Equinix for Curie Subsea Cable Landing Station
Google has selected an Equinix data center in El Segundo, California as the cable landing station (CLS) for the new Curie subsea cable system. In the U.S., the cable will land directly at the Equinix LA4 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center.
The Curie cable is expected to go live in 2019.
Equinix said the CLS configuration is ideal for extending the backhaul capacity of a subsea cable system directly to the ecosystems of companies in its high-density IBX data centers. The architecture provides easy access to a dense, rich ecosystem of networks, clouds and IT service providers.
Equinix has been selected as an interconnection partner in more than 25 of the current subsea cable projects.
