{"id":72986,"date":"2017-09-30T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/microsoft-and-facebooks-massive-undersea-data-cable-is-complete"},"modified":"2017-10-06T16:03:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T23:03:02","slug":"microsoft-and-facebooks-massive-undersea-data-cable-is-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/microsoft-and-facebooks-massive-undersea-data-cable-is-complete","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft and Facebook\u2019s massive undersea data cable is complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-and-facebooks-massive-undersea-data-cable-is-complete.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, we reported that Microsoft and Facebook were teaming up to build <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/05\/26\/facebook-microsoft-marea-atlantic-data-cable\/\">a massive undersea cable that would cross the Atlantic<\/a>, connecting Virginia Beach to the northern city of Bilbao in Spain. Last week, Microsoft announced that the cable, called Marea, is complete.<\/p>\n<p>Marea, which means \u201ctide\u201d in Spanish, lies over 17,000 feet below the Atlantic Ocean\u2019s surface and is around 4,000 miles long. It weighs 10.25 million pounds. The data rates (which let\u2019s face it, that\u2019s what we\u2019re all really interested in) are equally staggering: Marea can transmit at a rate of 160 terabits\/second. And it was finished in less than two years.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s really interesting about Marea, though, is that it has an open design. This means that Microsoft and Facebook are trying to make the cable as future proof as possible. It can evolve as technology changes and demands increase for more data and higher speeds. Its flexibility means that upgrading the cable and its equipment to be compatible with newer technology will be easier.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/25\/marea-data-cable-is-finished\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/25\/marea-data-cable-is-finished\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we reported that Microsoft and Facebook were teaming up to build a massive undersea cable that would cross the Atlantic, connecting Virginia Beach to the northern city of Bilbao in Spain. Last week, Microsoft announced that the cable, called Marea, is complete. Marea, which means \u201ctide\u201d in Spanish, lies over 17,000 feet below [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73074,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72986\/revisions\/73074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}