And is over 6,000 kilometers long.
In recent years, several technology focuses on undersea Internet cables.
Marea
Microsoft – which also conducts research on servers at sea – cooperates with Facebook on perhaps the best of all. The cable is the 4100 US mil, or 6598 km, stretching from Virginia Beach in the USA to the Spanish city of Bilbao.
MAREA, cable name, was to cover Microsoft needs now that more and more data moved into the cloud. Facebook is a natural partner because they have similar data challenges. Project is estimated to cost over $ 15 billion, roughly 124 billion.
Super Speed
Although there are cables that are longer, have MAREA eight fiber cables where there is usual with only two. It makes it possible to transmit data at a rate of outrageous 160 terabit per second.
The work of construction begins later this year and the companies expect to have it finished October 2017. It is Telxius, part of Spanish Telefónica, which will build and operate the monster cable.
PS. “Marea” is the Spanish word for tide.
Sources:
Microsoft,
Engadget
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