Residents of Japan, Guam, and Australia will soon be able to enjoy faster internet speeds. Google announced that it has invested in a new undersea cable: the Japan-Guam-Australia (JGA) Cable System.
The cable will connect Tokyo and Osaka, with Guam, and Guam with Sydney. It will stretch a total of almost 6,000 miles and is scheduled to be completed in 2019.
Google is investing in the southern portion of the JGA, which connects Guam to Sydney, along with Australian ISP AARNet and undersea cable manufacturer RTI-C.
The cable will provide better connectivity to the five regions where Google Cloud Platform services are available, in Asia and Australia. These regions include Mumbai, Singapore, Taiwan, Tokyo and Sydney.
This cable, along with three others, will make up Google’s “network family,” including Indigo, which connects Perth, Sydney, and Singapore to Jakarta; HK-G , which connects Hong Kong to Guam; and SJC , which connects Japan to China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Brunei, Thailand, and Singapore. Google also plans to build two additional cables to spread its Cloud platform across the United States and South America in 2019.
What does this mean for users? Residents of Australia or Southeast Asia will enjoy faster and better internet as Google's undersea cable network will expand the capacity and range of Google Cloud Platform in their region.
Companies using the Google Cloud platform, including Coca Cola, Best Buy, Niantic, Spotify, Motorola, Paypal, Apple , and Airbus, will have access to servers with greater capacity, higher performance, and fewer service interruptions.
