Grace Hopper (submarine communications cable)

Grace Hopper
Owners:
Google
Landing points
Total length6,250 km + 6,300 km
Design capacity352 Tbit/s
TechnologyFibre Optic
Date of first useSeptember 27 2022; 2 years ago (September 27 2022)

Grace Hopper is a private transatlantic communications cable that connects the United States of America (New York) with the UK (Bude) and Spain (Bilbao). It was announced by Google in 2020 and scheduled to go live in 2022.[1] The US to UK (Bude) leg went live on 27 September 2022.[2][3]

  1. ^ Frederic Lardinois (28 July 2020). "Google is building a new private subsea cable between Europe and the US". TechCrunch.
  2. ^ "Cable Compendium: a guide to the week's submarine and terrestrial developments". TeleGeography. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  3. ^ Lipscombe, Paul (3 October 2022). "Google's Grace Hopper cable now live between New York and Cornwall". datacenterdynamics.com.