The new submarine cable promises to distribute services Facebook and Microsoft more quickly and securely Spanish and general users who are on the other side of the Atlantic.
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Facebook and Microsoft have reached an agreement with the operator Telefonica to install a new submarine cable to cross the Atlantic from Northern Virginia, USA, to southern Spain, specifically to a province called Vizcaya, with the aim of providing both companies greater speed and reliability of its online services and cloud.
as explained by Facebook through a statement, the new submarine cable will be called TIDE and will have a capacity of 160 terabytes, or what is the same, will be 16 million times faster than the Internet connection of your home, making it the transatlantic cable with the wider band there so far.
the project will operated by a new company called Telefonica Telxius. But what good is this new submarine cable? The goal of Facebook and Telefonica is that through its 6,600 kilometers traveling quickly and secure data services online and even those functioning through cloud storage.
Microsoft wants this new super-fast broadband data traveling players who are facing an Xbox, or those who do a video conference via Skype. In the case of Facebook, the goal of the network is simply to meet the growing demand for connection and consumption data of its users.
Building TIDE start in August and is expected to it is completed in October 2017. Although it will connect US with Spain by a different route to the most common – which is usually from New York and not from Northern Virginia -. companies explain that this will allow them to distribute data to the rest of Europe, Africa, Middle East and even Asia
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