After it was According to rumors, in the early stages project last year, Meta confirmed today that this is the construction of Project Waterworth, an underwater cable of more than 50.00 km, which will connect five continents. The company previously collaborated with other cable projects, but this will be the first part of the underwater infrastructure that it owns.
The project applies to land in the USA, Brazil, India and South Africa, and, obviously, technically breaks new soil. META claims that Waterworth is the longest 24 Fiber Paber cable project in the world, and the company uses the “first one of its kind routing” to place the cables as deep as possible, “up to 7000 meters”. If the cables are not deep enough, the dangers of underwater, for example Boats fall and drag them anchorsIt can cause constant damage, violating the services.
The announcement of META does not detail how the cable will be used, in addition to noting that underwater cables provide “digital communication, video polls, online transaction and much more”, and that high-speed connection is a necessity for “innovation of artificial intelligence”. Independently, meta -services and platforms He said for accounting About 10 percent of global fixed use on the Internet and 22 percent of mobile traffic, therefore, at least existing companies of the company will benefit from a stable connection.
Interestingly, META is not only one support for a new project. A Joint statement of the United States India Released after the prime minister of Modi visited the United States, said that India is also financially engaged in Waterworth. The country plans to help finance, support and repair parts of the cable that are located in the Indian Ocean.