Facebook, Google Team Up on Subsea Cable Across Pacific Ocean

Facebook announced that it is teaming up with Google and Pacific Light Data Communication to build a state-of-the-art subsea cable under the Pacific Ocean.

Facebook announced that it is teaming up with Google and Pacific Light Data Communication to build a state-of-the-art subsea cable under the Pacific Ocean.

Construction on the Pacific Light Cable Network is slated to begin before year-end, and PLCN will have an initial estimated design capacity of 120 terabits per second.

Facebook announced in May that it teamed up with Microsoft and Telxius Cable on MAREA, a similar project beneath the Atlantic Ocean, with completion expected in October 2017.

Manager of network infrastructure Najam Ahmad wrote in a blog post:

PLCN will be one of the highest-capacity trans-Pacific systems, with an initial estimated design capacity of 120 tbps.

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