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Transatlantic communications cable connecting the US to Chile

Curie
Owners:
Google
Landing points
Total length10,476 km
Design capacity72 Tbit/s
TechnologyFibre Optic
Date of first use2020 Q2 (2020 Q2)

Curie is a private subsea communications cable owned by Google, connecting the United States to Chile and Panama. First commissioned in 2018 and completed in 2019, Curie is Google's third fully-owned subsea cable, and Chile's first subsea cable in nearly two decades.

References

  1. "Curie". Submarine Cable Networks.
  2. "Expanding our global infrastructure with new regions and subsea cables". Google Cloud Blog. 16 January 2018.
  3. Frederic Lardinois (14 November 2019). "Google finishes the install of its private Curie cable, announces Panama branch". TechCrunch.
  4. "Curie subsea cable set to transmit to Chile, with a pit stop to Panama". Google Cloud Blog. 14 November 2019.


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