Google Cloud Lands Grace Hopper Subsea Cable in Bude, Cornwall

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Google Cloud Lands Grace Hopper Subsea Cable in Bude, Cornwall

By CircleID Reporter
September 15, 2021, 10:57 am PDT Views: 15,810 Add Comment

Google Cloud landing its subsea cable, Grace Hopper in Bude, Cornwall. Photo: Google Cloud

Google Cloud has landed its muchly anticipated subsea cable, Grace Hopper in Bude, Cornwall. The 16-fiber pair Google-funded cable will connect New York (United States) to Bude (United Kingdom) and Bilbao (Spain). Grace Hopper represents a new generation of trans-Atlantic cable coming to the UK shores and is one of the first new cables to connect the US and the UK since 2003. When installed, Grace Hopper will have the capacity to carry approx. 340 Tbps of capacity—equivalent to approximately 17.5 million people streaming 4K videos concurrently. Google Cloud’s Jayne Stowell writes: “Following a successful Bilbao landing earlier in September, Grace Hopper also marks our first ever Google-funded route to Spain, taking a unique path from our existing cables, such as Dunant, which connects the U.S. and France, and Havfrue, which links the U.S. and Denmark.

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