Microsoft and Facebook will lay
a transatlantic cable of length 6600 km which
will transfer data up to 160 Tbps. This cable
will be laid from Virginia beach in the US to
Bilbao in Spain. This project is expected to be
completed and functional in 2017.
icrosoft and Facebook
are planning to lay down
a 6600 km long
transatlantic cable which can
cater the need of high demand for
internet bandwidth.
The transatlantic cable will be
laid between the USA and Spain.
The cable will start from Virginia
Beach, Virginia, to a data hub in
Bilbao in Spain.
This trend of laying cross-ocean
cable was started by Google back
in 2010 when a cable named
Unity was laid across the Pacific
between the United States and
Japan.
This decision by Facebook and
Microsoft might have come
because the demand for bandwidth
has increased in recent times. A
few years ago, the bandwidth
demand was met by the
traditional telecom companies but
now content provider companies
want to do economic investment
in their own infrastructure.
Like Unity, this cable will be
called by the name of Marea
which translates to tide in
Spanish. Marea will have the
capacity to transmit 160 terabits
of data per second.
If we look at the current
potential capacity across the
Atlantic, then it has the capacity
of around 337 terabits of data
and when Marea will be included
in 2017, it will come online with
almost 40 percent of the total
bandwidth.
Marea will be designed to be
interoperable with different kinds
of networking equipment which
will bring many benefits to
customers like lower costs and
easier equipment upgrades.
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