META✴ officially announced the start of work on a large -scale Project Waterworth project for laying an underwater cable with a length of 50,000 kilometers. “Digital Autopost” will provide high -speed communication around the world and create a reliable connection for users Facebook✴, Instagram✴ and WhatsApp. The cable will become the longest in the world and will cost the company more than $ 10 billion.
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The network will connect five continents, including key points in the USA, Brazil, India and South Africa, and as TechCrunch writes, the importance of the project for India is especially emphasized in this context, as this will contribute to the development of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) and provide a more stable and more stable and more stable and more stable and more stable and more stable Scaling connection. This is extremely important for future digital services.
According to company representatives, the project uses a new architecture with 24 pairs of fiber-fiber cables, as well as innovative laying methods. “We maximize the length of the cable laid in deep-sea zones at a depth of up to 7000 meters, and apply new ways of laying in areas with high risks to reduce the likelihood of damage due to geographical and political factors,” Meta✴ noted.
At the same time, geopolitics played an important role in the solution of META✴ about the construction of its own underwater infrastructure. In this regard, in a joint statement by the leaders of the United States and India, published the other day the White House, a commitment to cooperation in the development of underwater technologies under defense partnership was noted, as well as the mention of the Meta✴ Project Waterworth project and India participation in its financing.
In Meta✴, they emphasize that the project will strengthen the global digital infrastructure. “Digital communication, video services and online transaction are just some of the areas that Project Waterworth will support,” said the Vice President of Engineering Guy Nagarajan and the head of global network investment, Alex-Handrah Aime). According to them, the cable will create three new oceanic routes with high throughput, which will ensure the development of artificial intelligence on a global scale.
It is worth noting that this is not the first such project Meta✴. The company is already a co -owner of 16 networks, including a large -scale 2Africa project, covering the entire African continent. However, Project Waterworth will be the first underwater cable to fully belonging to Meta✴. Thus, the company will join Google, which also builds its own underwater infrastructure, unlike Amazon and Microsoft, which at the moment only rent power in existing networks.