Meta Is Building One of the World’s Biggest Undersea Cable Networks
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Meta is building one of the world's biggest undersea cable networks—it's just one piece of a growing seafloor empire spanning 6 continents
Meta's Petal cable is the latest of more than 20 subsea projects the company has bet on as its AI push demands ever more data capacity.
Meta announced Petal, an underwater cable that will connect the United States and France and, according to the company, will be able to transport one petabit of data per second. The project is part of a global infrastructure expansion that also includes Waterworth and 2Africa, while the demand for capacity for artificial intelligence products grows.
Meta is building one of the world’s biggest undersea cable networks
While data centers dominate headlines amid mounting local opposition over electricity bills, water use, and zoning fights, Meta has been expanding its infrastructure somewhere far less visible: the bottom of the ocean. On Sept. 21, the company announced Petal, a roughly 4,300-mile subsea cable connecting the U.S. and France. Meta says the cable, expected to […]
Meta is building one of the world’s biggest undersea cable networks—it’s just one piece of a growing seafloor empire spanning 6 continents
While data centers dominate headlines amid mounting local opposition over electricity bills, water use, and zoning fights, Meta has been expanding its infrastructure somewhere far less visible: the bottom of the ocean. On Sept. 21, the company announced Petal, a roughly 4,300-mile subsea cable…
Meta says Petal will be about twice as powerful as current state-of-the-art transatlantic cables, but it shouldn't require a commensurate increase in energy costs or physical infrastructure. One key technical solution is multi-core optical fiber technology. In traditional fiber, data is transmitted over a single fiber core, but in the new system, a single fiber can have multiple independent light paths. This allows more information to be transmi…
The multinational Meta, which owns social networks Facebook and Instagram and the WhatsApp messaging platform, announced its new connectivity infrastructure project. It will be a submarine cable that will become the first in world history to be able to transport a petabit per second across an entire ocean and uniting two continents. [...] The entry <h4 class="pais">Global: </h4>Meta will build the first submarine cable capable of transporting a …
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