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Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has confirmed US$10 billion+ subsea cable project to connect up the globe which would connect five continents, with landing points in the United States, Brazil, India, South Africa, and other key regions.
Project Waterworth is the official name, and it will be 50,000 kilometers long when completed, making it the world’s longest subsea cable project, according to Techcrunch.
The aim of the project is to give Meta more control over how it runs its own services.
In terms of the network itself, Meta says it will be breaking new ground with its architecture, using 24 fiber pair cables, and what it describes as first-of-its-kind routing, “maximizing the cable laid in deep water — at depths up to 7,000 meters” along with new burial techniques to reduce faults in areas deemed “high risk,” either because of geographical issues, or politics — and sometimes both.
“Digital communication, video experiences and online transactions,” are among the applications that the subsea cable will enable, according to the post, penned by Meta’s vice president of engineering Gaya Nagarajan and its global head of network investments Alex-Handrah Aimé.
“Project Waterworth will be a multi-billion-dollar, multi-year investment to strengthen the scale and reliability of the world’s digital highways by opening three new oceanic corridors with the abundant, high speed connectivity needed to drive AI innovation around the world.”
Meta has declined to comment on more specific details but in its blog post provided some high-level ideas of applications and highlighted the country and AI.
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