Yesterday on 28th July, 2020 Google announced that they have installed Grace Hopper subsea cable network.
This is very interesting news and a topic to discuss on. Because these days we all are connected with the term internet so eternally that any news which refers to the word INTERNET, automatically, we get attracted towards it. Of course, internet is part of our daily lives and a basic need for some young people.
So, let’s discuss here about the latest Grace Hopper subsea cables.
Is it going to impact your lives? If yes, do you know how?
First of all, Why the name “Grace Hopper”?
Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. She is also known as the creator of famous High-level programming language COBOL.
She was also one of the employees who developed The UNIVAC I(UNIVersal Automatic Computer I). This was the first general purpose electronic digital computer design for business application.
In World War II, she was one of many women who volunteered to serve in the WAVES.
So, Google decided to name this subsea cable network to honour her contribution in computing world as well as in the field of defence.
Before knowing about the Grace Hopper SubSea cable project, let’s have a short summary of how Internet works.
How Internet Works
98% of the Internet traffic around the world is carried through the subsea cables. (How many of you thought internet works on broadband/dialup connection? LoL). Subsea cables is a vast network of cables crisscrossing the ocean.
This cable network makes it possible to share, search, send, and receive information around the world at the speed of light. As our lives are becoming highly digital i.e the ways we connect, work, play are becoming digital, so it is necessary to have a reliable connectivity and it has become the basic need nowadays.
Grace Hopper
This makes Google excited to announce this “Grace Hopper” cable network. It will run between the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain, providing better resilience for the network that underpins Google’s consumer and enterprise products.
This is not the only cable network or the first cable network. This network is going to be the part of other three subsea cable networks that Google has already installed. They are Curie, Dunant and Equiano.
The subsea cables allow Google to plan effectively for the future capacity needs of their customers and users around the world, and add a layer of security beyond what’s available over the public internet.
The Grace Hopper cable will be one of the first new cables to connect the U.S. and U.K. since 2003, increasing capacity on this busy global crossroads and powering Google services like Meet, Gmail and Google Cloud.
It is also their first investment in a private subsea cable route to the U.K., and first-ever route to Spain. By making this Grace Hopper subsea cable with 16 fiber pairs (32 fibers) Google has made a significant upgrade to the internet infrastructure connecting the U.S. with Europe.
How will it be helpful?
The Grace Hopper subsea cable incorporates novel optical fiber switching that allows for increased reliability in global communications, which enables for better move traffic around outages.
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