The new submarine fiber cable, which will have a garden hose width, is expected to be completed next year. It will stretch from Vancouver to Port Alberni on Vancouver Island and then cross the Pacific Ocean floor in Mie and Ibaraki counties of Japan.
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The cable, called Topaz, is expected to speed up access to Google products such as YouTube, Gmail and Google Cloud and “will increase capacity in the area for various network operators in both Japan and Canada,” he said. Bikash Koley, head of Google. The World Wide Web said in a blog post last week. The tech giant is working with Japanese and Canadian partners to build the cable, which will be accessible to other ISPs. The story goes on under the ad 1:10 Unique Canadian Service Shutdown in Tumbler Ridge, BC Unique Shutdown of Canada Service in Tumbler Ridge, BC – April 28, 2021 “We’re essentially increasing the bandwidth we can offer them,” said Bobby Ninan, Google’s senior engineer, in an informative video. Trending Stories
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The first nations Hupacasath, Maa-nulth and Tseshaht, whose traditional areas will be built along the cable, support the project. “This agreement, which benefits both Google Canada and our Nations, is based on respect for the constitutionally protected treaty and indigenous rights and strengthens the reconciliation process,” said Chief Charlie Cootes, president of the Maa-nulth Treaty Society. . suspension.
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Although this is the first cable connecting Canada to Asia, it is not the first cable to run in the Pacific Ocean. The story goes on under the ad In the 1960s, a copper submarine cable called the Commonwealth Pacific Cable System connected Vancouver Island to Australia, with stops in Hawaii and New Zealand. According to Koley, this cable has now been withdrawn, but the same facility with which it was connected in Vancouver will host the end of the Topaz cable. © 2022 Global News, part of Corus Entertainment Inc.
