Microsoft And Facebook To Lay Undersea Cable

There are plenty of cables that run far below the waters, which we do not normally think about simply because we do not see them. These cables are vital to ensure that the world remains in touch with one another, as they send data back and forth round the clock without ever shutting down. Well, it looks like a 4,000 mile undersea cable deal has been announced on Thursday by Microsoft and Facebook, and happens to be the most recent of a dozen high capacity trans-oceanic cables that are being built by tech companies in order to handle the ever growing amount of demand for bandwidth.

This particular cable is said to run from Virginia Beach, Va. all the way to a data hub in Bilbao, Spain, now how about that? This cable will join up with a cat’s cradle of cables which criss-cross the ocean floor, and it is not an uncommon sight. In fact, Google can be said to be the party that kicked off the trend in 2010, when the search giant threw a wad of cash to lay a cable across the Pacific between the United States and Japan, calling it Unity – how apt!

As for the Facebook/Microsoft collaboration, this cable will be known as “Marea”, which is “tide” in Spanish.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Computers
Tags: Facebook, Microsoft