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Meta will establish its own submarine fiber network with huge investment

By admin, Aralık 2, 2024

Meta will establish its own submarine fiber network with huge investment





Meta will establish its own submarine fiber network with huge investment



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parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Metaglobally The second company with the largest internet traffic in position. The company, which accounts for 10% of all fixed traffic and 22% of all mobile traffic, will further increase its internet traffic with its investments in artificial intelligence. For this reason, the company that wants to have a reliable infrastructure, plans to lay its own fiber optic cable infrastructure.

It will be 40 thousand km long with an investment of 10 billion dollars.

The project, confirmed by TechCrunch from sources close to the company, from 10 billion dollars excessive investment and more than 40,000 km Includes fiber optic network. Meta’s submarine cable network sole owner and user It is stated that it will happen.

Sunil Tagare, a submarine cable expert and founder of a company called Flag Telecom, says the plan is to start with a budget of $2 billion, but as the project progresses, this figure may rise to over $10 billion.

Meta is expected to make a public statement on this issue in early 2025, when it will approve plans for the cable, including the planned route, capacity and some of the rationale behind the construction of the cable.




Meta will establish its own submarine fiber network with huge investment





Sources say the planned route of the cable currently runs from the US east coast to India via South Africa and then from India to the US west coast via Australia.

Meta is not new to the undersea fiber optic cable business. According to telecom analysts Telegeography, Meta has been working on projects including the 2Africa cable, most recently circumnavigating Africa. Partial owner of 16 existing networks in position. However, this new cable project will be Meta’s first project that is entirely its own.

























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