Google and Facebook are building a subsea cable system that will boost Internet connectivity in the Asia-Pacific region

Apricot is a new subsea cable from Google and Facebook that will connect Singapore, Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia. The 12,000-kilometer cable will feature a “state-of-the-art submersible reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer employing wavelength selective switch for a gridless and flexible bandwidth configuration, based on space division multiplexing design.”





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