Google has revealed plans to construct the world's first high-speed fiber-optic line connecting Canada and Asia.
Next year, the new submarine fiber cable will be completed, which will be the width of a garden hose. It will travel from Vancouver to Port Alberni on Vancouver Island, then over the Pacific Ocean to the Japanese prefectures of Mie and Ibaraki.
The Topaz cable is anticipated to speed up access to Google products like YouTube, Gmail, and Google Cloud and "expand capacity to the region for some network operators to both Japan and Canada," according to Bikash Koley, the head of Google Global Networking.
The tech giant is constructing the cable alongside Japanese and Canadian partners. It will be open to other internet providers as well.
In an informative video, Google senior staff engineer Bobby Ninan remarked, "We are essentially boosting the reliability of the bandwidth that we can supply them."
The Hupacasath, Maa-nulth, and Tseshaht First Nations, whose traditional areas will be crossed by cable, are all in favor.
In a blog post, Chief Charlie Cootes, president of the Maa-nulth Treaty Society, said, "This arrangement, in which both Google Canada and our Nations benefit, is based on respect for our constitutionally recognized treaty and aboriginal rights and helps the process of reconciliation."
While this is the first cable to connect Canada and Asia, it is not the first to cross the Pacific.
In the 1960s, the Commonwealth Pacific Cable System, a copper undersea cable that connected Vancouver Island to Australia with stops in Hawaii and New Zealand, was installed.
According to Koley, that cable has been retired. However, the Topaz cable will be terminated at the same site in Vancouver where it was attached.
-Jake Moore
https://globalnews.ca/news/8752695/google-fiber-cables-vancouver-japan/
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