Although there are already over 300
undersea cables worldwide that are owned by various companies, they can't provide the networking power that Google requires — especially to grow its cloud
business overseas, Google's principal engineer of networking architecture Vijay Vusirikala explained.
Although the Internet has come to be seen as ubiquitous, people in the Middle East and India were reminded Friday of just how the Web is delivered to their homes and
businesses when three key
undersea cables were severed within a span of 38 minutes, knocking a large portion of users offline until traffic could be re-routed.