TI Sparkle will gain access to a fiber pair on Google’s new Curie submarine cable system connecting Los Angeles to Valparaiso, Chile.
The new fiber pair on Curie will be fully integrated with Sparkle’s global backbone, increasing redundancy and offering a fourth diversified route to directly connect South and North America, complementing its 2017 addition of the Seabras-1 cable in the Atlantic.
Sparkle said its newest highways, Curie in the Pacific and Seabras-1 in the Atlantic, position it as the best-in-class choice for OTTs, ISPs, enterprises, Content/Application Providers and Asian players looking for global connectivity through its City2City transport service and its global Tier-1, Seabone IP transit service.
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Google completes California-to-Chile subsea cable
Google’s 10,500-km “Curie” subsea cable stretching from California to Chile is now ready for service. The new cable is equipped four 18 Tbps fiber optic pairs, a design capacity of 72 Tbps.
Google also announced the first Curie branch into Panama. Subcom has been selected for the project.
Curie represents Google’s third wholly-owned subsea cable. The other projects are Dunant, which crosses the Atlantic from Virginia to France, and Equiano, which will link Portugal to South Africa.
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.
