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'''MAREA''' is a 6600 km (4000 mile) long [[transatlantic communications cable]] between [[Virginia Beach, Virginia]], [[United States]], and [[Bilbao, Spain]], owned and funded by [[Microsoft]] and [[Facebook]], and operated by Telxius, a subsidiary of the Spanish telecom company [[Telefónica]]. |
'''MAREA''' is a 6600 km (4000 mile) long [[transatlantic communications cable]] between [[Virginia Beach, Virginia]], [[United States]], and [[Bilbao, Spain]], owned and funded by [[Microsoft]] and [[Facebook]], and operated by Telxius, a subsidiary of the Spanish telecom company [[Telefónica]]. |
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Revision as of 20:45, 23 May 2019
MAREA is a 6600 km (4000 mile) long transatlantic communications cable between Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, and Bilbao, Spain, owned and funded by Microsoft and Facebook, and operated by Telxius, a subsidiary of the Spanish telecom company Telefónica.
It finished being laid across the Atlantic in September 2017 and began operation in February 2018.[1]
The cable weighs approximately 4.65 million kilograms,[2] and is composed of an eight fibre-optic thread bundle about the size of a garden hose.[3]
The cable has a transmission speed of 160 terabits per second (Tbps).[4] (8 fiber pairs * 25 DWDM channels * 400 Gbps per single carrier (16-QAM modulation) = 160 Tbps)
In 2019, a research team reported they had generated signaling speeds of 26.2 Tbps (per fiber pair) on MAREA cable, 20 percent higher than believed feasible when the cable was designed.[5] [6] The name MAREA is Spanish for tide.[7][8]
Frank Rey, Director of Global Network Strategy for Microsoft's Cloud Infrastructure and Operations division, cited the service disruptions caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 as the impetus for the new cable.[2]
References
- ^ http://wtkr.com/2018/02/27/va-beach-to-become-tech-hub-teaming-up-with-giants-like-microsoft-facebook/
- ^ a b Grossman, David (September 22, 2017). "Microsoft, Facebook, Complete Enormous Undersea Cable".
- ^ "Tech giants are building their own undersea fibre-optic networks". The Economist. 5 October 2017.
- ^ https://www.submarinenetworks.com/systems/trans-atlantic/marea/
- ^ Grubb, Stephen; Mertz, Pierre; Kumpera, Ales; Dardis, Lee; Rahn, Jeffrey; O’Connor, James; Mitchell, Matthew (2019). "Real-time 16QAM Transatlantic Record Spectral Efficiency of 6.21 b/s/Hz Enabling 26.2 Tbps Capacity". OSA Technical Digest. Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2019: Optical Society of America. paper M2E.6.
{{cite conference}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Mertz, Paul (25 February 2019). "Researchers Break Efficiency Record for Data Transfer in Ultra-fast Transatlantic Cable". www.ofcconference.org. Optical Society of America. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ https://www.wired.com/2016/05/facebook-microsoft-laying-giant-cable-across-atlantic/
- ^ https://news.microsoft.com/features/microsoft-facebook-telxius-complete-highest-capacity-subsea-cable-cross-atlantic/
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