Introduction: The United States Microsoft and Facebook recently announced that it will jointly invest in the construction of a high-speed inter the Atlantic submarine cable, to help users to quickly and reliably connect the two companies of cloud services and online services. This is also a trend in the U.S. Internet companies involved in the submarine cable market, reflect their urgent needs to have a submarine cable.
Optical communication The United States Network Microsoft and Facebook recently announced that it will jointly invest in the construction of a high-speed inter the Atlantic sea optical cable To help users, high-speed and reliable connection of the two companies, cloud services and online services. This is also a trend in the U.S. Internet companies involved in the submarine cable market, reflect their urgent needs to have a submarine cable.
The cable codenamed MAREA, by 8 Optical fiber Which is the design capacity of the largest submarine cable across the Atlantic, preliminary design dataTransmission capacity (i.e., bandwidth) per 160 terabit (TbpS). MAREA is about 6600 kilometers, connecting the eastern United States Virginia Virginia beach and Bilbao, planned to start in August this year, completed in October next year.
The huge demand for Microsoft and Facebook cooperation business development companies based on high-speed Internet data transmission. In the case of Microsoft, with Microsoft search, office software, games and other services to the cloud platform, users of high speed, reliable connection of Microsoft's cloud services demand grow with each passing day. Microsoft said that the cable will enable faster and more reliable storage, management and transmission of them in the Microsoft cloud platform data.
Two years ago, the Google Corporation announced the building code for the trans Pacific submarine cable FASTER, both connected to the main city on the west coast of the United States of Losangeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland and japan. The design of data transmission capacity of FASTER is 60TbpS, is designed to maximize the capacity of the trans Pacific submarine cable. Google and China Mobile , China Telecom The 6 companies jointly invested about $300 million for the project. Google said, whether it is the Android user or product development on Gu Geyun platform developers need to have strong network To obtain fast and reliable infrastructure, Google products. This project is expected to be completed this year.
In recent years, the large Internet companies to participate in the construction of submarine cable It is often seen. on Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc. companies are not for the first time. According to the American Geographical telecommunications research firm statistics, Google has invested or plan to invest in the construction of the five submarine cable, Microsoft four, face book two, Amason a.
There are more than 350 undersea cables in the world at present, bear most of the global international telephone communications and Internet data communication. Submarine cable general by the Telecom Construction and control. But the cable length and the design capacity of the U.S. Internet companies are catching up with the traditional telecom company.
From the point of view of Microsoft and Facebook cooperation, the United States Internet Co from the original and telecommunications company consortium jointly invest in the construction of submarine cable, tend to self investment, independently owned.
The main reason of American Internet companies keen new submarine cable is the rapid development of the Internet business support and the explosive growth of data usage. Survey of American telecom research firm in 2014, geographical display, such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft;s Internet content provider to cross the Atlantic submarine cable bandwidth usage for the first time in more than the amount of telecommunications companies and other users. Global bandwidth demand in 2012 to 2014 years doubled, rising to 44% in 2014, is the main promoter of content providers. With the development of Internet services and cloud services, the demand is sustained and rapid growth.
The laying of a submarine cable about hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Analysts said the long term, the content provider and has built its own submarine cable, submarine cable bandwidth than the purchase to third party service to pay. This move us Internet companies, fueling speculation that they may enter the public utilities market, and telecom companies competing in business. Analysts believe that the likelihood of success. Microsoft and Facebook have said they did not intend to do so, and obtain new capacity will meet all of their massive demand for bandwidth.
