Google first announced this project, which was named after the first Noble Peach Price winner and founder of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant, back in the middle of 2018. At the time it expected the project to go live in 2020, but besides dealing with the complications of spanning a long cable between continents, the project leaders probably didn't budget for a global pandemic at the time.

The almost 4,000-mile cable has a total capacity of 250 terabits per second -- or enough to transmit the "entire digitised Library of Congress three times every second" which was quite sweet as we normally see the number of blu-ray porn videos that can be sent per second as a more likely unit of measurement.

Unlike some older cables, Dunant uses 12 fiber pairs, coupled with a number of technical innovations around maximising its bandwidth, to achieve these numbers.

Mark Sokol, senior director of Infrastructure, Google Cloud, said: "With record-breaking capacity and transmission speeds, Dunant will help users access content wherever they may be and supplement one of the busiest routes on the internet to support the growth of Google Cloud. Dunant is a remarkable achievement that would not have been possible without the dedication of both SubCom and Google's employees, partners, and suppliers, who overcame multiple challenges this year to make this system a reality."