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New transatlantic cable in Bordeaux

on Friday, 01 October 2021 Posted in News Rezopole

New transatlantic cable in Bordeaux

One of the main transatlantic cable projects concerning France has just "landed" on a beach at Porge, near Bordeaux. The project was initiated by Facebook and built by Alcatel Submarine Networks. Orange, partner for the French part, was responsible for the operation. This required horizontal drilling 20 metres below the beach and the dune, in order to limit the impact on the environment and in particular the forest.

Named "Amitié", this cable links Massachusetts in the United States to Porge in France and Bude in England. It is 6,800 km long and carries a total of 16 pairs of optical fibres. It is scheduled to come into service in early 2022.

 

The French incumbent will benefit from two fibre pairs on this cable and will be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the "landing station". Orange will provide the terrestrial links from this station to Bordeaux, then Paris and Lyon, and finally the rest of Europe. It also states that the cable will enable new data centres to be set up in the Bordeaux area.

 

Another transatlantic cable, "Dunant", was recently commissioned in the Vendée by Google. With traffic between Europe and North America doubling on average every two years, investment in new infrastructure is needed to absorb the increase. Between them, "Dunant" and "Amitié" will have more capacity than any previous transatlantic cable.

 

 

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Source : L'Usine Digitale

 

 

 

 

Google reveals largest DDoS attack in history

on Thursday, 22 October 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

Google reveals largest DDoS attack in history

On October 16th , the Google Cloud team revealed a DDoS attack that targeted the Google service in September 2017. Having reached 2.54 Tbps, this is the largest DDoS attack recorded to date.

Researchers at Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) claim that this attack came from China, as it originated from the network of four Chinese Internet Service Providers (ASN 4134, 4837, 58453 and 9394).

 

Google Cloud reliability and security engineer Damian Menscher says the spike was the "culmination of a six-month campaign" that used multiple attack methods to hammer Google's server infrastructure. "The attacker used multiple networks to spoof 167 Mp/s (millions of packets per second) from 180,000 exposed CLDAP, DNS and SMTP servers, which then sent us significant responses".

 

Google revealed the incident last week for various reasons. Firstly, to raise awareness of the growing trend of state-sponsored groups of cyber attackers. But also to warn that DDoS attacks will intensify in the coming years as the bandwidth available to the Internet increases.

 

 

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Source : ZDNet

 

 

 

 

No submarine cable between Hong Kong and L.A.

on Friday, 04 September 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

No submarine cable between Hong Kong and L.A.

Called "Pacific Light Cable Network" (PLCN), the underwater fiber optic cable that was supposed to link Los Angeles to Hong Kong will finally not be built. This is indeed what Facebook and Google have just announced. The new plans for this cable filed with the U.S. telecom police, the FCC, indicate that it will connect only the United States to Taiwan and the Philippines.

 

This project, initially announced in 2016, was intended to connect Hong Kong directly to Los Angeles via six pairs of optical fibers. It had to be redesigned in a hurry to get approval from the US regulator, whose management is said to be close to the Trump administration.

 

Three companies share ownership of the consortium: Google owns one pair of fibers with a branch to Taiwan, Facebook owns another pair with branches to the Philippines, and the Hong Kong Pacific Light Data Co (PLDC) has control over all the remaining pairs and acts as the landing point in Hong Kong.

 

And it is this last part that poses a problem for the FCC. The FCC has therefore refused to operate this submarine cable system connecting directly to Hong Kong, arguing that it would be contrary to U.S. national security interests.

The U.S. Telecom Constabulary also argued that the high capacity and low latency of the network would encourage U.S. communications traffic crossing the Pacific to detour through Hong Kong before reaching its intended destination, unnecessarily increasing the amount of data passing through the Chinese government-controlled infrastructure. This has forced Google and Facebook to revise their plans.

"We can confirm that the original application for the PLCN cable system has been withdrawn, and a revised application has been submitted.... We continue to work through established channels to obtain landing licenses for our submarine cables," said Google management, interviewed by ZDNet editors.

 

The initial project had the potential to attract many U.S. companies to expand their customer base in Asia. The current tensions between Beijing and Washington are claiming other victims...

 

 

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Source : ZDNet

 

 

 

 

The Vendée is home to Google s submarine cable

on Friday, 20 March 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

The Vendée is home to Google s submarine cable

Google's future private transatlantic submarine cable called "Dunant", a 6,600-kilometre long cable linking the United States and France, is due to come into service by the end of 2020. Orange, a partner of the Californian giant, laid the final section in the Vendée on 13th March.

 

To link up with the existing terrestrial network, the cable ends in a "landing station" near a beach in the commune of Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez. This underground installation was set up in a bunker more than 10 metres underground, originally built for a NATO cable. The bunker had been dormant since 2016, when it hosted its last cable, "Eurafrica", linking France, Morocco and Portugal. Similar work will soon take place at the other end of the cable, i.e. at Virginia Beach in Virginia.

 

As the first cable between the United States and France in 15 years, Dunant should make it possible to cope with the sharp increase in traffic expected between Google's data centres on either side of the Atlantic.

The fiber pairs will have a capacity of 30 Tbps each, compared with 3.2 Tbps offered by the previous transatlantic cable, which has been operational since 2001. Orange will benefit from two fiber pairs.

 

In addition, at the end of 2019, Google inaugurated a first cable, called "Curie", between the United States and Chile. A third, "Equiano", is planned between Portugal and South Africa.

 

 

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Source : L'Usine Nouvelle

 

 

 

 

Submarine cables: Orange and Telxius join forces

on Thursday, 20 February 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

Submarine cables: Orange and Telxius join forces

Google's 'Dunant' transatlantic cable is scheduled to go live in 2020. Orange and Telxius, a subsidiary of Spain's incumbent operator Telefonica, have announced their association in this context. On February 18, Orange and Telxius, a subsidiary of the Spanish incumbent Telefonica, announced that they have joined forces to bring a new transatlantic submarine cable into service. Owned by Google, the 'Dunant' cable will link France to the United States in 2020. Orange will have two pairs of fibre and Telxius will have just one of the twelve pairs of fibre in the cable.

 

They will "offer and operate collocation services in their respective landing stations" in Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez (west coast of France) and Virigina Beach (east coast of the United States), the two groups said in a joint statement. Telxius will provide Orange with a link from its landing station in Ashburn, Virginia. In return, Telxius will benefit from Orange's connections to Paris and other major cities in France.

With this agreement Orange will have more capacity between Europe and the United States. For the incumbent operator, this is an imperative to cope with the explosion of data traffic between the Old Continent and the land of Uncle Sam. For the French telecom leader, Dunant represents a significant investment amounting to several tens of millions of euros.

 

As part of this venture, Orange is also working with Google to provide it with terrestrial fibre optic links in France. This will enable the Mountain View giant to connect its data centres on both sides of the Atlantic. Over the past few years, it has invested in around ten of these arteries lying at the bottom of the seas, which are so essential to the smooth running of the Internet.

 

 

 

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Source : La Tribune

 

 

 

 

A toll for Internet giants

on Wednesday, 29 May 2019 Posted in Archives Rezopole, Archives GrenoblIX, Archives LyonIX

A toll for Internet giants

France's leading Internet service providers ranked it as one of the largest consumers of bandwidth a year ago. These groups, such as Google, Netflix, Akamai, Facebook, take advantage of the tips of French operators without paying their fair share.

The French Telecoms Federation (FFT) and its president are therefore calling for "more equity". In an interview with Le Figaro, Arthur Dreyfuss explains that "80% of the taxes paid in France by digital players are paid by French telecom operators. At certain times of the day, 80% of telecom network traffic is due to YouTube, Netflix, Amazon and Facebook".

Under these conditions, the FFT proposes to introduce a toll, i.e. to charge for access to the networks of French operators. As these pipes are extremely profitable for American giants, access providers are wondering when they will participate in financing the infrastructure. Indeed, ISPs must constantly invest in expanding and improving their networks. These are therefore heavy financing for which the Internet giants participate little or not at all.

This proposal does not come about by chance since the government wants to introduce a tax on the advertising activities of the largest digital companies. It should be implemented very quickly since it has just been voted by the Senate.

 

 

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Source : Journal du Geek

 

 

 

 

Direct peering with Google is available on LyonIX!

on Thursday, 16 March 2017 Posted in Archives Rezopole, Archives LyonIX

Direct peering with Google is available on LyonIX!

We are pleased to announce you a Google peering interconnection at LyonIX (AS15169). 

A LyonIX member since 2016, Google provided until now a service via dedicated Google Cache.

 

Important: this new peering is only partly available via the LyonIX route-server. To get a complete access to the Google contents (search engine, gmail, google-doc, youtube, etc.) you have to set-up a direct peering with AS15169.

 

 

 How does it work?

First, have your entries at PeeringDB completely updated and acurate.

Then set-up this direct peering:

 

  • If you have an isp.google.com access, you can make a request following the tickets > request new IX interconnect option.

 

 

 

 

Rezopole allows to create google maps!

on Tuesday, 29 December 2015 Posted in Archives Rezopole, Archives GrenoblIX, Archives LyonIX

Rezopole allows to create google maps!

Rezopole provides an API Google ODS2 Gmap service allowing creating googlemaps from the spreadsheet files: rezopole.net/ods2gmap/

 

About ODS2

ODS2 is a Multiplatform Software Application for Creating Integrated Physical and Genetic Maps. ODS2 has a graphical user interface and is implemented entirely in Java, so it runs on multiple platforms. Other features include the flexibility of storing data in a local file or relational database and the ability to create full or minimum tiling contig maps.

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