- Meta confirms the Underwater Cable Plans of the Waterworth Project
- The cable will extend 50,000 km away and reach the whole world
- It will be the longest cable in the world – the holder of the previous record was … meta
Facebook Meta’s parent company has deleted the wraps of its plans to build a large 50,000 km submarine cable which will connect five continents and extend to the entire globe.
The news comes only a few months after we learned that the company planned to build a submarine wired network at a cost of $ 10 billion.
Project Waterworth, which, according to Meta, is a multi -year investment of several billion dollars, will focus on a cable longer than the earth is round.
The vice-president of engineering of the Gaya Nagarajan network and the world chief of investment of the Alex-Handrah Aimé network shared in an announcement that the cable will become the longest in the world and that it would have the “most capacial technology available ».
Project Waterworth aims to connect the United States, India, Brazil, South Africa and “other key regions” and has been described as an “investment to strengthen the magnitude and reliability of digital motorways in the world By opening three new ocean corridors with abundant, high speed connectivity necessary to stimulate AI innovation in the world. »»
It may be Meta’s greatest, but it is certainly not his first. The company has developed 20 other cables over the years, including an extensive version of its “2Africa” network which was the previous book holder, 45,000 km.
The wired network, which will last in southern Africa and will cut through central Asia and Australasia, will be placed at depths up to 7,000 m.
In addition to giving Meta a greater control over its network infrastructure, Nagarajan and Aimé have declared that an improved connectivity will help to offer technological development opportunities in countries like India, where significant growth and investments in Digital infrastructure has already played.
