Facebook and Microsoft laying cables across the ocean across the Atlantic Ocean in more information more quickly. The project, known as the Malta (Spain to tide), from Virginia Beach, Virginia 6,600 km to Bilbao, Spain, and provide bandwidth up to 160 terabytes of data per second. Companies will start in August, is expected to complete the project until October 2017.
Microsoft's cloud computing infrastructure and operations, global network officer Frank · Rey said the cable will have a greater capacity than any other submarine cable across the Atlantic. Rey wrote in a blog post, "we are seeing high speed, reliable connection of Microsoft's cloud computing services, including Bing, Office 365, Skype, Xbox Live, Microsoft Azure rising customer demand." "As the world continues to go to based on the future of cloud computing, Microsoft is committed to support faster speeds than ever before, and even greater flexibility to connect to our global infrastructure-building required for cloud services. This robust, global infrastructure will enable customers to more quickly and reliably store, manage, transfer and access their data in the Microsoft cloud.
This latest project marks another undersea infrastructure investments in Microsoft and Facebook step. By 2015, Microsoft announced that it was working with Hibernia and Aqua communications cooperative trans-Atlantic submarine cable. A few years ago, Facebook said that its investment in fiber-optic cables, across the Pacific, attract more users in Asia, according to VentureBeat.
Microsoft and Facebook's competitors are taking similar action. Earlier this month, Amazon Web services, in the submarine cable project has made its first investment. North wind undersea cables will be based on data from the company to provide more bandwidth, with the United States, and Australia, New Zealand,
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Google has also invested in a fibre optic submarine cable, it was forced to wrap aramid fibrous material, protecting them from the shark bites. Individual cables, are part of the Google fiber infrastructure, is made of glass and is very fragile. Sharks of this theory by the electric field of cable issue and mistakenly think that their prey.
