Meta is building the ‘mother of all’ subsea cables

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Meta is reportedly readying to physique a world-spanning fiber-optic subsea cablegram for its ain exclusive use. According to TechCrunch, the $10 cardinal task volition make a caller 40,000+ kilometer (about 24,850 miles) cablegram web astir the satellite that avoids “areas of geopolitical tension” wherever subsea cables person been sabotaged, specified arsenic the Red Sea, the South China Sea, Egypt, Marseilles, the Straits of Malacca, and Singapore.

While Meta is already a part-owner of 16 existing networks, this caller cablegram task would beryllium wholly owned by the institution — allowing it afloat power to prioritize postulation to its ain products and services. That would bring Meta successful enactment with Google’s efforts, which privately owns a fistful of cablegram routes and has...

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