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Facebook working with Microsoft to lay
transatlantic cable CREDIT: DADO RUVIC/REUTERS
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Facebook working with Microsoft to lay transatlantic cable CREDIT: DADO RUVIC/REUTERS
Microsoft joining Facebook in cable
project CREDIT: MICHEL EULER/AP
Facebook and Microsoft is about to
build a massive cable across the Atlantic running from Virginia Beach in the
United States to Bilbao in Spain.
The project is latest in a series of
major cable projects which have come necessary due to growing demands of
internet bandwidth.
MAREA will be the fastest cable ever
to cross the Atlantic. Construction is about to begin in August and will be
completed in October next year.
It will be operated by Telxius, a
secondary of the Spanish telecommunications and broadband giant, Telefónica.
About the width of a garden hose, it
will considerably increase the amount of data which can be carried across the
Atlantic.
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Microsoft joining Facebook in cable
project CREDIT: MICHEL EULER/AP
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Google, which in 2010 laid the first
of these cables – Unity linking the US and Japan – is continuing to expand.
Apart from Facebook and Microsoft, Amazon is also playing a major part in this
industry.
According to Alan Mauldin, research
director with telecommunications research firm TeleGeography, part of the cable’s
function will be to guarantee a dependable link.
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