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Microsoft and Facebook Just Built a 4,000-Mile Cable Across the Pacfic Ocean (popularmechanics.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Popular Mechanics:
Microsoft, Facebook and global telecommunication infrastructure company Telxius have completed the Marea subsea cable, the world's most technologically advanced undersea cable. The Marea crosses the Atlantic Ocean over 17,000 feet below the ocean's surface, connecting Virginia Beach with Bilbao, Spain. Over 4,000 miles (6,600 kilometers) long and weighing nearly 10.25 million pounds (4.65 million kilograms), the Marea can transmit up to 160 terabits of data per second, which Microsoft notes is "more than 16 million times faster than the average home internet connection, making it capable of streaming 71 million high-definition videos simultaneously."
The undersea cable -- about 1.5 times the diameter of a garden hose -- contains eight pairs of fiber optic cables encircled by copper, a protective layer of hard plastic, and then waterproof coating. Its 4,000-mile route had to avoid everything from earthquake zones to active volcanoes.
Cables under the Atlantic Ocean carry 55% more data than cables under the Pacific, Microsoft writes, adding that "the project highlights the increasing role of private companies in building the infrastructure of the future."
The undersea cable -- about 1.5 times the diameter of a garden hose -- contains eight pairs of fiber optic cables encircled by copper, a protective layer of hard plastic, and then waterproof coating. Its 4,000-mile route had to avoid everything from earthquake zones to active volcanoes.
Cables under the Atlantic Ocean carry 55% more data than cables under the Pacific, Microsoft writes, adding that "the project highlights the increasing role of private companies in building the infrastructure of the future."
I guess the headline needs to be fixed.
Someone needs to read their own summary: this looks like the Atlantic Ocean, not the Pacific Ocean.
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Only approved traffic will be allowed on the new cable. Anyone critical of Microsoft or Facebook will be banned from using it.
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...4,000-Mile Cable Across the Pacfic Ocean ... connecting Virginia Beach with Bilbao, Spain
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For technological reasons, this gives the best value. There are also undersea fiber-optic cables with just 4 strands, and two of them are reserve ones. So the 8 pairs seen here are actually pretty high. And yes, it is mostly the amplifiers needed, they cannot get too large or you cannot just put them in the cable. These amplifiers are pretty tricky with laser-pumped Erbium embedded into the fiber.
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not M$ or FB. They paid for it.
My neighbor paid a contractor to build an extension to his house.
But he didn't do so much as lift a fucking brick. It's his house, he paid for it but he did NOT "build" it.
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I think the summary was pretty clear. The Marea cable is a highly advanced undersea cable that connects West Virginia Beach to Billings, Montana, crossing the Indian Ocean at a depth of 16,000mi (7km). It weighs a ton (1.09 nautical tons) and has the capacity to transmit 180 tibibytes of data across the Arctic Ocean—roughly equivalent to 1 billion "likes", 64 million unrequested Windows 10 updates, 14,000 librarians of congress, or infinity SMS messages. Geez RTFS.
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One of my favorite articles of all time from any source is the piece Neal Stephenson wrote for Wired about the Fiber Optic Link (around the) Globe, or FLAG, in 1996.
https://www.wired.com/1996/12/...
It went from England to Japan (about 28,000 km/17,500 miles) and carried "just under 8 Gbps of actual throughput". 21 years later, this new cable has TWENTY THOUSAND times the bandwidth. Nice.
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I think it's to do with the Earth's rotation. In the Atlantic the data is moving with the spin, whereas in the Pacific it's against it, or something.
Obviously this doesn't apply in Australia.
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