Facebook and Microsoft will build the fiber at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean – Interia

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US companies Facebook and Microsoft have joined forces and will jointly implement a project to build a fiber running along the bottom of the ocean Atlantic. The project will connect Marea state of Virginia in the United States and Spain, and the cable will have more than 6.4 thousand. km long.

fiber Marea will have more than 6.4 thousand. km in length

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The submarine cable will consist of eight pairs of optical fibers, making Marea will be the fastest combination of this type running along the bottom of the Atlantic. The project will also address the Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica.

Media recall that this is another Internet project, in which the largest IT companies join forces. In this way, they want to ensure a greater control over the information generated by their services. In the past, Facebook and Microsoft invest in similar projects and their projects realized or Google and Amazon.

In a joint statement made it clear that this project will help reduce the costs, and accelerate the speed of data transfer, so effectively they operate, eg. cloud services. The company declined to give the cost of the project. Official “Wall Street Journal” recalls, however, that the average construction cost of the fiber in the Atlantic is over 200 million dollars.

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