Meta floats project to lay first petabit submarine fiberoptic cable
The 7,000 km (4,350 mile) cable, called Petal, will connect the US and France. Meta is partnering with NEC and Sumitomo Electric Industries to build it, and working with French telecommunications company Orange to coordinate the landing of the cable on the French coast. Petal will have more than double the capacity of today’s fastest transoceanic cables. Last November, AWS laid plans for a 320…
Meta has floated a project to lay the first petabit submarine fiber optic cable, named Petal. This 7,000 km cable will connect the US and France. Meta is collaborating with NEC and Sumitomo Electric Industries to construct the cable, and working with French telecommunications company Orange to coordinate its landing on the French coast.
Petal will boast more than double the capacity of today's fastest transoceanic cables. In November, AWS announced plans for a 320 Tbit/s cable between the US and Ireland, while an Australia to US cable, announced in January, will deliver 400 terabits per second. The increasing demand for greater data connectivity has spurred a surge in subsea cable deployment, but these cables have raised security concerns among some US lawmakers who fear their implications.
There have been calls for these providers to disclose all the cables they have in place. This article originally appeared on Network World.
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