Facebook and Microsoft announced today that it reached an agreement to build a submarine cable new generation called Marea that will cross the Atlantic and join the United States with Spain.
Cable allow both companies to enhance and strengthen the connectivity of millions of Internet users, which is vital for their business. Facebook is a social network that would be unthinkable without good access to the worldwide network ; and Microsoft has a very wide range based on the “cloud” (Bing, Office 365, Skype, Xbox Live, Azure) services. So the investment of both companies in network infrastructure must be understood in this context
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the laying of wire Marea start in August and is scheduled to be ready in October 2017. it will be, they said both companies more transatlantic cable capacity data transmission those that exist . It shall consist of eight pairs of fiber optic and initial bandwidth will be 160 terabytes per second, a difficult magnitude of plot: will be capable of something like transfer some 20,000 films in HD in a second.
The submarine cable, about 6,600 kilometers long , will be operated and managed by Telxius, a subsidiary of Telefónica for telecommunications infrastructure.
As reported microsoft, the cable will also be the first to connect the United States to southern Europe: will go from Virginia Beach, Virginia, to Bilbao, Spain . This route is south of systems transatlantic cables in the region, landfalls, mainly in New York and New Jersey and reach northern Europe.
Dice Microsoft that being physically separated of those other cables, Marea offer connections more reliable
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Since 1858 first telecommunications cable (telegraphic) crossed the Atlantic Ocean, has come a long way. In 1956, the TAT-1 was the first transatlantic telephone cable. And in 1988, the TAT-8 that it was the first optic transoceanic fiber submarine cable , lying between the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
Today, as can be seen in Submarine cable Map 2016 TeleGeography (telecommunications consultancy), the Atlantic is crossed by at least 21 wires that have their ends in different parts of America and come to Europe and Africa. Of these at least fifteen join the United States in northern Europe.
As explained to Clarin Ernesto Curci, vice president of Services and Network Management Level 3, a global provider of telecommunications, fiber optic cables are complemented by satellites in the distribution of large-scale data. “The cable transmits large capacities and satellite, while smaller capacities handles can distribute data in inaccessible places, whether for economic or geographical reasons,” Curci
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is built as for Argentina, the specialist said that currently arrive in the country five submarine cables (SAC, SAM, Unisur, Atlantis 2 and Bicentennial). These cables connect the country with Santos, Fortaleza and Rio De Janeiro (Brazil), Maldonado (Uruguay) and Cape Verde. All arrive at the Earth Station Las Toninas, in the province of Buenos Aires.
The initiative Marea cable is not the first involving Facebook in the field of connectivity . The firm has already launched various projects to extend or strengthen the possibility that the world’s population that is not yet connected to the Internet it is as soon as possible . In this context Internet.org launched some time ago, which is, according to the company, an initiative “with the goal of bringing Internet access and the benefits of connectivity to two-thirds of the world that do not have” .
in this context, the Connectivity Lab Facebook explores different ways to bring Internet to those who do not. Drones Aquila, for example, flying to more than 15,000 meters high , have huge wings and powered by solar energy can stay in the air for months to bring connectivity to remote areas.
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