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posted by CoolHand on Friday May 27 2016, @06:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the really-long-things dept.

Geekwire reports on a post on Microsoft's corporate blog in which plans for a transatlantic communications cable are announced. The cable will connect Bilbao in Spain to Virginia Beach, Virginia in the USA. Construction is set to begin in August. The planned capacity of 160 Tbps would, according to the blog post, exceed that of any existing transatlantic cable. The project is to be a joint venture of Microsoft with Facebook, and is to be operated by the Telxius arm of Telefónica.

From the Geekwire article:

Microsoft and Facebook will place a cutting-edge undersea cable across the Atlantic Ocean, stretching 6,600 kilometers or more than 4,100 miles from Virginia Beach, Va., to Bilbao, Spain, capable of hurtling data under the ocean at speeds of 160 Terabits per second.

The companies say the new project, called Marea, will be the highest-capacity subsea cable ever placed across the Atlantic, the first to connect the U.S. to southern Europe. Construction will begin in August 2016, with completion scheduled for October 2017, the companies say.

"We're seeing an ever-increasing customer demand for high speed, reliable connections for Microsoft cloud services, including Bing, Office 365, Skype, Xbox Live, and Microsoft Azure," said Microsoft's Frank Rey in a post announcing the plan.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 27 2016, @08:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 27 2016, @08:58PM (#351762)

    we have shit dsl where we are, AND 'lucky' to have that...
    less than a mile away, is a big, fat, juicy level three fiber optic trunk line that runs along a railroad track right of way...
    IF i had the technical chops, i would be sorely tempted to get with a couple handful of rural neighbors, and tap into that sucker...
    i bet dollars to donut holes that we could do a better job than the shit ISPs who have NOTHING in mind but to rip us off for as much as they can for as long as they can with ZERO effort or expense to actually improveour service...

    i despise ALL Big Media kompanies with a white-hot fury, fucking scumbags...

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by isostatic on Friday May 27 2016, @10:57PM

    by isostatic (365) on Friday May 27 2016, @10:57PM (#351817) Journal

    IF i had the technical chops, i would be sorely tempted to get with a couple handful of rural neighbors, and tap into that sucker...

    And then what? You've got a bunch of traffic running at hundereds of gigabits a second that's all mpls tagged. You expecting DHCP to give you an address?