The finish presented Waterworth Project, an initiative aimed at building a submarine cable of 50,000 kilometers, which will ensure internet communication on five continents. The company tries to strengthen control over management of its services and guarantee the necessary infrastructure to develop its products, especially those based on artificial intelligence.
Underwater cables support over 95 percent of intercontinental internet traffic. “Project waterworth will be multi -million, many years of investments to strengthen the scale and reliability of global highways, opening three new ocean corridors with abundant, fast communication needed to increase AI innovation around the world,” said the company in A post about the undertaking. The project was first Reported Last fall entrepreneurs Sunil Targer.
According to the company, the inter -aian cable will be longer than the perimeter of the Earth, which makes it the longest in the world. He will have land points in India, the United States, Brazil, South Africa and other strategic locations. The company suggests that the construction of this network will bring significant opportunities in AI space, especially on the Indian market.
“In India, where we have already observed significant growth and investments in digital infrastructure, Waterworth will help accelerate this progress and support the country’s ambitious plans for his digital economy,” we read in the form of Compay.
Last week, President Donald Trump and the Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi issued a common statement on cooperation between two countries. The document contains obligations regarding the summary of technology and mentions the Waterworth project.
“Supporting greater connectivity of the Indian Ocean, leader with satisfaction with satisfaction with satisfaction with satisfaction with satisfaction with satisfaction with meta with a multi -million investment in the submothic cable project, which will start working this year and eventually extend over 50,000 km to combine five continents and strengthen global digital highways In the Indian Ocean region in the Indian Ocean region and not only – he said a statement issued by the White House.
The new submarine will use cable architecture with 24 fiber optic pairs and routing designed to maximize deep -sea routing, reaching up to 7000 meters. The meta claims that it has improved its funeral techniques in high -risk areas, such as shallow waters close, in order to reduce the risk of damage to the anchors of ships and other external factors.
Ecosystem Meta, which includes services such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, through Some accounts It covers up to 10 percent of constant traffic and 22 percent of the mobile movement around the world. Over the past decade, the company has developed over 20 submarine cables in cooperation with various partners. Waterworth would be the first project to be fully owned by the company.
Thanks to this initiative, Meta will compete directly with Google, which has about 33 undersea cable routes, some of which were only possessed, according to the specialist company Telegeography. Other technology companies, such as Amazon and Microsoft, also invest in this sector, although they only have common interests or acquire abilities for existing cables.
This story originally appeared Wired in Spanish and was translated from Spanish.