Firmina is the first cable linking Argentina with the US since 2001. When did Google Maps, Street View and the local YouTube arrive?
In an auditorium packed with journalists at its offices in Puerto Madero, Google celebrated this Tuesday 15 years in Argentina. At the celebration, the company confirmed the arrival of the Firmina submarine cable in 2023 in the country.
firmin is the first cable linking Argentina with the US since 2001 and the first in the world capable of operating with a single power source at one end of the cable. Despite its long distance. will link the East Coast of the United States with the dolphins in Argentina, and will have additional land extensions in Praia Grande, Brazil and Punta del Este, Uruguay.
All in all, the cable will have a length of 13,500 kilometers, its 12 fiber pairs will carry Internet traffic with a final design capacity of 15.03 terabits per second (TB/s) per fiber pair.
According to the company, the main subsidiary of the American Alphabetthis cable will contribute to improve connectivity of all the people and companies that use Google products in the region.
With 12 pairs of fiber optics, will transport traffic quickly and safely between North America and South Americagiving users fast, low-latency access to products like Search, Gmail and YouTube, and Google Cloud services.
Firmina will join Tannat, another cable whose functions will be inaugurated in 2020. “Both cables will have an impact on the local economy of 23.7 billion dollars in GDP,” they said in the presentation.
In 2007, “Google saw three main reasons that justified its establishment in the country: the innovation, talent and entrepreneurial spirit”, he recalled Victor ValleyGeneral Director of Google Argentina and first local office employee. Valle gave vital importance to the public university as a differential source of talent creation in the country.
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In this sense, in April of last year, the company announced that Google Cloud chose Argentina to inaugurate a Engineering and service center for local and global customers helping to operate in the cloud and implement data center migration solutions, Big Data, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.
This center continues to grow with new job searches open so that more and more people are part of this great Argentine team.
On the other hand, through Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, the company said it will provide financial support for three local projects. On the one hand, 500,000 dollars will be allocated with the aim of promoting the entrepreneurship of women from vulnerable contexts in northern Argentina, through training in hard and soft skills, business incubation and acceleration, and access to seed capital.
In this spirit, will also be awarded $100,000 to Junior Achievement Argentina to support women from the North of the country with scholarships for Google Career Certificates, in addition to providing mentoring, training in socio-emotional skills and accompanying them in the process of finding a well-paid job in the digital economy.
Some of the highlights of the company’s history in these years are the arrival of Maps in Argentina in 2008, the presentation of YouTube at the local level in 2009 (a company that paid 1,650 million dollars at the time), the mapping of the country via Google Street View in 2013 and the launch of YouTube Music and YouTube Premium in 2019.