- Meta confirms Project Waterworth Subsea -Cable Plans
- Cable spans over 50,000 km and reaches around the world
- It will be the longest cable in the world – former record holder was … meta
The Facebook moder company Meta has lifted the wrapping of its plans to build an extensive 50,000 km underwater cable connecting five continents and spans across the globe.
The news comes only a few months after we first learned that the company was planning to build an underwater cable network at a cost of $ 10 billion.
Project Waterworth, as Meta says, is a multibillion dollar, perennial investment, will center around a cable longer than the Earth is round.
VP for Network Technology Gaya Nagarajan and the global leader of network investments Alex-Handrah Aimé shared in a message that the cable will become the world’s longest and that it would contain “the available highest capacity technology.”
Project Waterworth aims to connect the US, India, Brazil, South Africa and “Other Key Regions” and have been described as an “investment to strengthen the scale and reliability of the world’s digital highways by opening three new oceanic corridors with the abundant high -speed connection , needed to operate AI innovation around the world.
It may be Meta’s biggest, but it’s definitely not the first. The company has developed 20 other cables over the years, including an extended version of its ‘2africa’ network, which was the previous record holder, 45,000 km.
The cable network, which runs south of Africa and cuts through the center of Asia and Australasia, will be placed at depths of up to 7,000 m.
In addition to giving Meta greater control over its network infrastructure, Nagarajan and Aimé said that improved connection will help provide opportunities for technological development in countries such as India, where significant growth and investment in digital infrastructure has already played.
