...Microsoft has just announced on its Server & Cloud Blog that it will work with Facebook to build a new, state-of-the-art subsea cable across the Atlantic. Known as “MAREA”, this new cable will help meet the increasing customer demand for high speed, reliable connections for cloud and online services for Microsoft, Facebook and their customers.
The parties have cleared conditions to go Contract-In-Force (CIF) with their plans, and the construction of the “state of the art” undersea cable system will begin in August 2016 with over 6,600 kilometers to be laid by October 2017. Frank Rey, Microsoft Director for global network acquisition described that “this marks an important new step in building the next-generation infrastructure of the Internet.”
...Thanks to eight fiber pairs, the submarine cable system will deliver speeds going up to 160 terabits per second (Tbps). Telxius, Telefónica’s telecommunications infrastructure company, is the subsea cables expert hired to complete the project. The company will become the operator and manager of the system, and will also be able to sell internet capacity to its customers. Telefónica’s new telecommunications infrastructure company, will also be the first to connect the United States to southern Europe, from the data hub of Northern Virginia to Bilbao, Spain and then to network hubs in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Other transatlantic cable systems already exist north of the new cable and establishing an entirely new cable will help provide “more resilient and reliable connections” for customers of the two companies.
Fuente: http://www.techworm.net/2016/05/micr...net-cable.html
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