What is Blue Raman cable?

The Blue cable will connect Italy, France, Greece, Israel and go terrestrially to Jordan; while the Raman cable will connect Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, and India. Combined, they will form a major new high-capacity route linking Europe and India.

How many undersea cables does Google own?

In total, Google is invested in 19 cable projects around the world.

Who owns Internet undersea cables?

The approximately 400 publicly disclosed undersea cable systems (both existing and planned) are mostly owned and operated by telecommunications companies. More recently, however, large Internet companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have entered this area as well.

What are submarine Internet cables?

A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. Modern cables use optical fibre technology to carry digital data, which includes telephone, Internet and private data traffic.

Are there transpacific cables?

TRANSPAC or Trans-pacific cable (TPC) is a series of undersea cables under the Pacific Ocean.

Is there internet cables under the sea?

Vodafone’s transatlantic Apollo North and Apollo South underwater cables link the UK and France, respectively, with the US. The Apollo cables carry not just public internet traffic, but business-critical data for companies of all sizes over network links with dedicated bandwidth.

Is there an underwater cable to Hawaii?

Most internet traffic is carried around the world via undersea fiber optic cables. Many already traverse the Pacific without needing to stop in Hawaii. Technological advances allow the next generation of undersea fiber optic cables to traverse the Pacific without stopping in Hawaii.

What is the Blue-Raman cable?

Google’s Blue-Raman cable will create a new Europe-Asia connectitivity route with a combination of submarine and terrestrial cables connecting Asia and Europe across Israel and several Arab countries, bypassing Egypt. The Blue-Raman is named after the Indian Nobel Prize laureate Venkata Raman.

Is Google’s Blue-Raman coming to Israel?

Though no official word has been given by Google, Blue-Raman is expected to reach Israel by 2022 and according to reports TIM’s Sparkle is partnering on the Blue part of the system, while Omantel will collaborate with Google on the Raman half.

Will the Blue-Raman cable cross the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia?

It is now officially announced by Google. As shown in the following cable route released by Haaretz Newspaper, the Blue-Raman cable would cross the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia via terrestrial cable. According to Google’s announcement, this connection via terrestrial cable hasn’t been confirmed.

Where will the Omantel cable start and end?

Raman, named after Indian Nobel Prize laureate Venkata Raman, the Omantel cable will start in Mumbai and travel across the Indian Ocean and overland across an unidentified country, before ending at the Jordanian port of Aqaba. Considering the route, it is likely that the unidentified country is Saudi Arabia.