Google introduced this Monday the arrival of the Firmina worldwide submarine cable to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, which will enhance community attain and resilience of the South American nation and the area.
Firmina is the first submarine cable that connects Argentina with the United States straight, makes use of electrical energy expertise which permits it to cowl higher distances and deploys twelve pairs of fiber in its principal trunk, as printed this Monday by Google Argentina on its social networks.
The Firmina undertaking consists of a excessive capability submarine fiber optic cable system that connects the metropolis of Myrtle Beach, in the US state of South Carolina, with the Argentine coastal city of Las Toninas, in the province of Buenos Aires, with connections to the Uruguayan metropolis of Punta del Este and the Brazilian metropolis of Praia Grande .
13,500 kilometers of cable
The cable system covers roughly 13,500 kilometers, together with 5 segments for the principal route and two branches. Furthermore, it’s designed to assist a geometrical signal-to-noise ratio of 8.1 decibels per spine fiber pair and affords a closing design capability of 15.03 terabits per second per fiber pair.
With twelve fiber pairs, the cable is predicted to transport site visitors rapidly and safely between North and South America, and present quick, low-latency entry to Google merchandise. The connector may also be the first in the world to function with a single energy supply at one finish of the cable if different sources will not be accessible.
The undertaking was named Firmina in honor of the Brazilian author and abolitionist Maria Firmina dos Reis, whose novel Ursula describes the lifetime of Afro-Brazilians underneath slavery. Firmina joins different necessary submarine cables in America associated to Google and different firms: Curie, which connects the US with Chile; Monet and Junior, with cities in Brazil, and Tannat, which connects with Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.
