- Meta confirms the submarine cable plans Project Waterworth
- The cable will cover 50,000 km and reach the entire world.
- It will be the longest cable in the world: the previous record holder was … Meta
The Metrix Meta Matrix has raised the wrapping of its plans to build an extensive underwater cable of 50,000 km that will connect five continents and cover the whole world.
The news occurs only a few months after we first knew that the company had plans to build an underwater cable network at the cost of $ 10 billion.
The Waterworth project, which says that it is a multimillion -dollar investment of several years, will focus on a cable that is longer than the earth is round.
The Vice President of Network Engineering Gaya Nagarajan and the Chief of Investments of Global Network of Network, Alex-Handrah, Aimé shared in an ad, the cable will become the longest in the world and that would present the “most available capacity technology” .
Project Waterworth aims to connect to the United States, India, Brazil, South Africa and “other key regions”, and has been described as an “investment to strengthen the scale and reliability of the world’s digital roads by opening three new oceanic corridors With the abundant, high speed connectivity is needed to boost the innovation of AI worldwide. “
It can be the biggest finish line, but it is certainly not the first. The company has developed another 20 cables over the years, including an extended version of its ‘2Africa’ network that was the previous record holder, 45,000 km.
The cable network, which will travel southern Africa and cross the center of Asia and Australasia, will be placed at depths of up to 7,000 m.
In addition to providing the goal of greater control over their network infrastructure, Nagarajan and Aimé declared that better connectivity will help provide opportunities for technological development in countries such as India, where significant growth and investment in digital infrastructure have already been developed.
