New transatlantic undersea cable by Microsoft and Facebook is set to revolutionise data transfer speeds
Facebook and Microsoft have taken initiative for the project as both tech giants want to cater their services more efficiently around the globe
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Facebook and Microsoft have completed a transatlantic undersea cable project that could revolutionise internet connectivity and data sharing in the future.
The technology giants have been working together for over a year, as per a report in the TNW to add infrastructure to accommodate the internet usage of the next billion users that will be soon become a part of the cyber world.
Keeping that in mind the two firms are carrying on with a project that is aimed at installing new and advanced undersea cables on the ocean floor.
The endeavour called the Marea Project has seen both the firms work in collaboration with the Spanish telecom infrastructure firm Telxius for the laying of the undersea cables connecting Virginia Beach in the US and Bilbao, Spain. The 6600-kilometre long connection will transmit data at a speed of up to 160 terabits per second.
According to Microsoft’s blog the new cables will be more than 16 million times faster than the average home internet connection, making it capable of streaming 71 million high-definition videos simultaneously.
Facebook and Microsoft have taken initiative for the project as both tech giants want to cater their services more efficiently around the globe.
While the former wants users to hop on its social network and share their data with the company, the latter wants to make its cloud services easily accessible.
As this would mean an increase in the data volume the companies are taking action to lay advanced cables that can support large volumes of data transfer.
Though the laying down of the cable has been completed it will become operational only by the next year.
