Microsoft and Facebook team up to build the largest submarine cable in the world – lagranepoca

The submarine cable will connect the 6600 kilometers between Virginia Beach in Virginia, United States and Bilbao in Spain. (Microsoft)

Microsoft announces a major step for infrastructure “global cloud” between Microsoft and Facebook, it is the creation of a submarine cable across the Atlantic.

the cable called “TIDE” will allow customers high-speed, reliable connections to the cloud and online services Microsoft and Facebook. The cable will begin construction in August this year and completion is scheduled for October 2017.

The initiative is due to the demand from customers for high speed, have reliable connections for services Microsoft’s cloud, in which we can highlight Bing, Office 365, Skype, Xbox Live and Microsoft Azure. Besides this infrastructure will create a robust to store, manage, transmit and access their data in the cloud environment.

Frank King director of Global Network Acquisition Group Microsoft notes that “the goal is to better serve our customers and provide the kind of reliable connectivity and low latency they deserve, we continue to invest in new and innovative ways to continuously improve both the cloud Microsoft and the global Internet infrastructure, “later adding” this marks an important new step in building the infrastructure of the next generation Internet “.

Microsoft says that” TIDE “will be the largest capacity submarine cable across the Atlantic, will carry 8 pairs of fiber and an estimated 160 Tbps capacity. The cable will measure 6600 kilometers and will be managed by Telxius (telecommunications infrastructure company Telefonica).

This infrastructure will be characterized by being the first to connect the United States to southern Europe. The ends are Virginia Beach in Virginia and Bilbao in Spain. The interesting thing about this building is the separation that will have over other transatlantic cables, which will ensure more durable and reliable for customers in the US, Europe and beyond connections.

Both microsoft and Facebook designed “TIDE” to work with a variety of network equipment is an open design that will bring significant benefits because it would lower the cost to customers and equipment upgrades would be much faster.