wiredinUSA August 2018

Sanjay Chowbey, president of TE SubCom

Dunant connection

Google is building a new submarine cable system to connect the US East Coast with Europe. TE SubCom has been selected to build the 6,400km Dunant four fiber-pair cable system. Named after Henri Dunant, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, the cable will cross the Atlantic Ocean from Virginia Beach in the US to the French Atlantic coast, adding capacity to Google’s global network, and enabling interconnection to other subsea infrastructure in the region. It will use SubCom’s A1 cable family, which is optimized for projects compatible with higher DCR. Speaking of its appointment, Sanjay Chowbey, president of TE SubCom said: “We are proud to be working with Google

on this important cable system and to be helping to increase Internet performance for all.” The cable is expected to become available in late 2020. Google has invested in three other subsea cables, the Havfrue, HK-G and JGA-S cables, as part of a consortium.

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