Meta, owners of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced yesterday its plans to deploy a multi-billion dollar cable that will span the globe. Called “Project Waterworth,” the project is expected to be the world’s longest 24 fiber pair submarine cable stretching 31,070 miles connecting the U.S., India, Brazil, South Africa, and other regions. The company said that it would deploy ‘first-of-its-kind routing,’ and will be laid at depths up to 23,000 ft using enhanced burial techniques in high-risk fault areas, such as shallow waters near the coast.
“Project Waterworth will be a multi-billion dollar, multi-year investment to strengthen the scale and reliability of the world’s digital highways by opening three new oceanic corridors with the abundant, high speed connectivity needed to drive AI innovation around the world,” said Meta network engineers Gaya Nagarajan and Alex-Handrah Aimé.
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