Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google data-center networking evolution
Topaz, the first-ever fiber cable to connect Canada and Asia. (News)
Once complete, Topaz will run from Vancouver to the small town of Port Alberni on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, and across the Pacific Ocean to the prefectures of Mie and Ibaraki in Japan. We expect the cable to be ready for service in 2023, not only delivering low-latency access to Search, Gmail and YouTube, Google Cloud, and other Google services, but also increasing capacity to the region for a variety of network operators in both Japan and Canada.
Data center networks form the basis for modern warehouse-scale and cloud computing. The primary benefit of this model is simple yet profound: adding an incremental server or storage device to a higher-level service delivers a proportional increase in service capacity and capability.
At Google, our Jupiter data center network technology supports this kind of scale-out capability for foundational services for our users, such as Search, YouTube, Gmail, and Cloud services, such as AI and machine learning, Compute Engine, BigQuery analytics, Spanner databases, and dozens more.
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