Microsoft and Facebook to lay huge private undersea cable across the Atlantic

John Leonard
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4,100-mile cable will be completed in October 2017 with a capacity of 160Tbps

Microsoft and Facebook have teamed up to build an undersea cable across the Atlantic. The Marea cable will lay between Virginia Beach on the west coast of the US and Bilbao in northern Spain. ...

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