Facebook and Microsoft Thursday announced a joint agreement to develop a new undersea telecommunications cable across the Atlantic ocean to initially join the United States and Spain and later to the centers network in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia.
for this project, both companies are working with Telxius based on the experience of Telefonica in submarine cables. In this project, Telxius serve as system operator and selling capacity as part of its infrastructure business wholesale.
The construction of the new cable called “ TIDE “, will have a extension of six thousand 600 kilometers, will begin in August 2016 and is scheduled to end in October 2017.
the objective is to meet the growing demand from customers higher speed, reliable connections for cloud and online services of both companies, said through a joint statement.
The design TIDE aims to be functional for a wide variety of network equipment under an “open” design that aims to provide benefits to customers as lower costs and upgrades easier teams, resulting in faster growth rates bandwidth, because the system, say companies can evolve at the pace of technology innovation optics.
in this regard Christian Belady , Head of Strategy data Centers Planning and Development Microsoft, explained that the firm led by Satya Nadella continue to invest in infrastructure ‘cloud’ to the growing demand for more than 200 services ‘cloud’.
“the transatlantic cable that we are building with Facebook and Telxius offer a new connectivity low latency (sum of time delays within a network), which will help meet growing demand for capacity faster across the Atlantic.
in addition, we will raise the strength of our global network, ensuring greater reliability to our customers, “he said.
Meanwhile Najam Ahmad , vice president of Network Engineering Facebook, said the company owned by Mark Zuckerberg wants to ensure that people have deeper connections and shared experiences, a type of project you want to multiply in the future.
Meanwhile Telsiux in voice Rafael Arranz , Director of Operations, explained that this project will strengthen the leadership of the new subsidiary of the Spanish operator as one of the most important infrastructure companies in the world.
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