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Google's subsea fiber optics, explained
Google details how it plans, designs, and operates subsea fiber optic cables that carry 99% of international network traffic. The company uses multi-year demand forecasting, advanced technologies like space division multiplexing and wavelength selective switching, and redundant network paths to achieve high capacity (340 Tbps on newer cables) and resilience. Google's Premium Tier network routes traffic over its private backbone rather than the public internet, reducing latency and hops compared to standard routing.
Why it matters: Cloud architects and network operators should understand Google Cloud's Premium Tier network topology and capacity planning to optimize application performance and reliability for globally distributed workloads.
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Google's subsea fiber optics, explained
Google details how it plans, designs, and operates subsea fiber optic cables that carry 99% of international network traffic. The company uses multi-year demand forecasting, advanced technologies like space division multiplexing and wavelength selective switching, and redundant network paths to achieve high capacity (340 Tbps on newer cables) and resilience. Google's Premium Tier network routes traffic over its private backbone rather than the public internet, reducing latency and hops compared to standard routing.
Why it matters: Cloud architects and network operators should understand Google Cloud's Premium Tier network topology and capacity planning to optimize application performance and reliability for globally distributed workloads.
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