Google and Facebook become the new Internet infrastructure?

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, two giants of the web, Facebook and Google are being gradually buy thousands of lines not used worldwide to expand their networks and traffic control optical fibers. As a means of resisting the NSA spying .

Facebook and Google are redoubling their efforts to create their own fiber optic networks , says an article in the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper reports that the Google network includes more than 160 000 km of fiber worldwide . For comparison, the network operator Sprint has 45,000 km of fiber in the United States . This means that the Google network is dense enough to compete with the telecom operators.



Facebook has in turn invested in dark fiber across Europe to connect to its data center in Sweden at the Arctic Circle. In addition , the newspaper said that the social network has paid several million dollars for the installation of 10,000 km submarine cable across the Pacific . Similarly , Amazon and Microsoft with their massive fiber datacenters to support their development in the cloud and continue to invest heavily in infrastructure. Taken together , all these networks are a threat to telecom operators.

Officially, these investments in telecom networks are designed to reduce costs , improve the performance of web services and ensure sufficient capacity for traffic video, photos or games. But Edward Snowden revelations about various NSA spying programs and weaknesses of telecom operators to monitor their networks, web giants could be tempted to use their own networks more easily controllable . Facebook has been working for several years on the Open Compute Project that incorporates a network component to overcome the proprietary network equipment.