Google has announced a substantial fiber optic cable project that will create a new cable network from Kenya to South Africa and then travel subsea across the ocean to Australia, the tech giant announced Thursday. But what happens to these cables when they can no longer keep up with modern needs? They joked that it was “English weather” on the grey day in November 1984 that Australian. Google's Global Network Infrastructure group is planning to build fibre optic subsea cables as part of their Pacific Connect and Australia Connect Initiative. This investment in digital infrastructure will improve data security, resilience, capacity and efficiency to meet requirements in Australia. Australia's support for the deployment of international fibre-optic cables in the South Pacific is a relatively recent development. Prior to 2017, the Australian government's support for digital development in Pacific island countries (PICs) was focused only on cyber capacity building and. The Pacific Fibre cable is a new 12,750km (7,920 miles) trans-pacific subsea fiber optic cable linking Australia, New Zealand and the US, with cable landing stations in Sydney, Auckland and Los Angeles. The Pacific Fibre cable system consists of two fiber pairs, with 128 wavelengths per fibre pair. Dubbed Umoja, the cable route will be set up in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic.
