Google wants to build a submarine cable between Saudi Arabia and Israel
Google is planning to build a submarine optical cable to connect India and Europe to deal with the predicament of insufficient network bandwidth, Wall Street Journal reports.
This submarine cable is not only to connect the South Asian subcontinent and Europe, but it is also very likely to connect the rivals of Saudi Arabia and Israel. Of course, this will be very difficult.
According to Israeli media reports, the country will soon become a key channel for Google’s global optical fiber network. This submarine optical cable will pass through Israel to avoid crowded Egypt.
Egypt, next to the Suez Canal, is a transfer station for many submarine optical cables. This is also the case for Egyptian routes that are quite crowded. Google hopes to open up new routes in Israel.
It is very difficult to lay a submarine optical fiber cable in Saudi Arabia to connect to Israel. So the solution that Google thought of was to divide this submarine optical cable into two. The eastern section departs from the Indian port city of Mumbai and transits through Oman through Saudi land.
After passing through Saudi Arabia, the eastern section arrives at the port of Aqaba, Jordan, where the eastern section is considered complete, and then the western section from the port of Aqaba enters Israel through the Mediterranean and enters Europe.
The name of the eastern section is taken from Wenkatalaman, India, to commemorate the physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1930 for discovering the Raman effect of light refraction.
The western section is called Blue. Since the east and west sections are connected in Jordan, it is not a complete submarine optical cable, which solves the problem between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The official name of this submarine cable is Blue Raman, the western section is co-operated by Google and Telecom Italia, and the eastern section is co-operated by Google and Oman Telecom.
The entire submarine optical cable is estimated to have an investment of up to 400 million U.S. dollars and a length of more than 5,000 miles (approximately 8,046 kilometers). There is no news about the specific date of completion and production.
