Meta is building the ‘mother of all’ subsea cables

Meta is reportedly readying to physique a world-spanning fiber-optic subsea cablegram for its ain exclusive use. According to TechCrunch, the $10 cardinal task volition make a caller 40,000+ kilometer (about 24,850 miles) cablegram web astir the satellite that avoids “areas of geopolitical tension” wherever subsea cables person been sabotaged, specified arsenic the Red Sea, the South China Sea, Egypt, Marseilles, the Straits of Malacca, and Singapore.

While Meta is already a part-owner of 16 existing networks, this caller cablegram task would beryllium wholly owned by the institution — allowing it afloat power to prioritize postulation to its ain products and services. That would bring Meta successful enactment with Google’s efforts, which privately owns a fistful of cablegram routes and has invested successful 33 others.

Subsea cablegram adept Sunil Tagare archetypal reported connected Meta’s program to physique the “mother of each submarine cables” — dubbed “W,” for its signifier — backmost successful October, estimating that the effort would necessitate a $10 cardinal concern and apt instrumentality betwixt 5-10 years to complete. TechCrunch says the plans are inactive successful the aboriginal stages, and that Meta is expected to uncover much — specified arsenic the capacity, intended route, and wherefore it’s privately gathering the cablegram — sometime successful aboriginal 2025.

The rumored way for Meta’s undersea cablegram would span from the US eastbound seashore and backmost to the westbound seashore via transportation points successful India, South Africa, and Australia. The extremity is to debar gathering successful regions that person seen a caller spate of cablegram cuts, which trust connected a secretive planetary web of ships to repair.