A planned Asia-Pacific information cablegram called Apricot would boost transportation speeds for the region, according to Google and Facebook, which are joining the project.
Google and Facebook connected Monday unveiled plans for a caller undersea net cablegram connecting Singapore, Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia.
The cablegram task dubbed Apricot would beryllium immoderate 12,000 kilometers (nearly 7,500 miles) and beryllium operational successful 2024 taxable to regulatory approvals, the companies said successful abstracted statements.
The task announced by the US firms and determination and planetary partners "will present much-needed net capacity, redundancy, and reliability to grow connections successful the Asia-Pacific region," said Facebook engineering manager Nico Roehrich.
"The Apricot cablegram is portion of our ongoing effort to grow planetary web infrastructure and amended service the much than 3.5 cardinal radical astir the satellite who usage our services each month," Roehrich added.
Earlier this twelvemonth the companies announced different cablegram task dubbed Echo connecting the United States, Singapore, Guam and Indonesia.
"The Echo and Apricot cables are complementary submarine systems that volition connection benefits with aggregate paths successful and retired of Asia, including unsocial routes done confederate Asia, ensuring a importantly higher grade of resilience for Google Cloud and digital services," said Google Cloud vice president Bikash Koley.
"Together they'll supply businesses and startups successful Asia with little latency, much bandwidth, and accrued resilience successful their connectivity betwixt Southeast Asia, North Asia and the United States," Koley added.
Google and Facebook this twelvemonth halted efforts connected a planned undersea cablegram that would person connected California and Hong Kong, owed to tensions betwixt the United States and China.
Last year, the US Department of Justice recommended that the planned cablegram projected by Google and Facebook bypass Hong Kong.
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