Microsoft and Facebook’s 160Tbps transatlantic undersea cable carries more data than any other
Sep22
Over the past year, Facebook and Microsoft have been working together on an incredible project to add internet connectivity infrastructure to support the ever-expanding population that’s accessing the web. We keep talking about how so much of our data and connected services live in the cloud, but most of our access to them from around the world – about 99 percent, in fact – is actually made possible by submarine cables laid on ocean floors, thousands of feet below sea level. While we’ve been using this sort of infrastructure since the mid-1800s for telegraph systems, the technology to lay submarine…
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