the american company alphabetowner of Googlecontinue with the installation of the submarine fiber optic cable signature, which will connect Las Toninas, a city in southern Argentina, with South Carolina, United States, and which will have a connection in Punta del Este.
for days a ship owned by Alphabet it’s found kilometers from the coast of the Maldonado resort launching part of the international cable, to advance with its layout.
The ship is called “Durable”and has a flag of the Marshall Islandsa territory that belonged to the United States until the early 90s. It is a ship of 2002 of 140 meters long and 21 wide of the “cable layer” type, in charge of laying submarine cables, and “restricted maneuverability”according to the specialized portal Marine Traffic, which currently locates the ship on the Uruguayan coast.
According to the page, Durable left Montevideo on July 4 bound for Punta del Esteand your next destination is Buenos Aireswhere do you expect to arrive August 16th.
Before the Uruguayan coast, which it reached at the beginning of July, the ship spent from the end of May to the beginning of June on the islands Bermudakilometers from the southeastern United States, as reported by the Vesselfinder site.
The installation of the Firmina cable in Uruguay was approved in December 2022 by the president Luis Lacalle Pou. As clarified in the resolution of the Executive Branch, dated December 23, the initiative has “extreme importance for the country” and it has “the endorsements of the competent ministries, departments and agencies” on the subject.
The action was announced by Google in June 2021. “Firmina will improve access to Google services for users in South America. With 12 fiber pairs, the cable will carry traffic quickly and securely between North and South America.giving users fast, low-latency access to Google products such as search, Gmail and YouTube, as well as Google Cloud services,” the search engine said in a statement at the time.
