Now Facebook and Microsoft cable pals. The project is called Marea, which means tides in Spanish, and is about to build a high-capacity cable from northern Virginia in the United States to Bilbao in Spain.
It becomes the longest high-speed cable in the Atlantic with its 660 mil.
And it is not only long, it is fast too. The bandwidth is 160 terabits per second – or 16 million times faster than a standard internet connection at home says news site Wired.
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the cable will be an important component of the corporate infrastructure that they simply should be able to pass around the huge amounts of data that result from their rapidly expanded boundary cloud business with significant expansion of data centers around the world.
Facebook to keep track of data from 1.6 billion användre and Microsoft will keep running services like Azure, Xbox Live and Office 365 Support.
Microsoft says in a statement that the new construction will also increase interoperability with other network equipment leading to “lower costs and make it easier to upgrade equipment because the systems can be developed at the same pace as the optical technology develops.”
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to build undersea cables for the Internet are nothing new – Google has invested in two. One from the West Coast to Japan and branched out to several parts of Asia.
The big players simply do not want to rely on hiring on telecom operators’ cables builds the then resolutely its own infrastructure.
the construction will launch in August and will be completed in October 2017
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