Google to build submarine cables between Europe and Africa

Google has announced plans to build a third dedicated submarine cable connecting Europe and Africa.

Named after the Nigerian writer Olaudah Equiano, this cable-laying project, called the Equiano Project, begins in Portugal and reaches Cape Town, South Africa, south of the Atlantic coast of the African continent. Operation of this cable is scheduled for 2021.

Google has poured $47 billion over three years into its infrastructure. The first submarine cable, Curie, built at its own expense, was connected from Los Angeles to Chile in April, and the second, Dunant, plans to connect the United States and France in 2020. According to Google, the third, Equiano, adopts optical switching rather than conventional wavelength level switching, and will have 20 times the speed of cables that have been released so far. Related information can be found here .