{"id":230439,"date":"2017-09-26T09:25:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T07:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=230439"},"modified":"2017-09-26T09:27:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T07:27:12","slug":"160tbps-subsea-cable-from-microsoft-and-facebook-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/230439-160tbps-subsea-cable-from-microsoft-and-facebook-complete.html","title":{"rendered":"160Tbps subsea cable from Microsoft and Facebook complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/21\/celebrating-completion-advanced-subsea-cable-across-atlantic\/?ranMID=24542&amp;ranEAID=je6NUbpObpQ&amp;ranSiteID=je6NUbpObpQ-X1qBBcNqVc15MhN5aliPSA&amp;tduid=(0d7be23eda94de406c1717184d3c82de)(256380)(2459594)(je6NUbpObpQ-X1qBBcNqVc15MhN5aliPSA)()\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Microsoft has announced<\/strong><\/a> the completion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/marea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Marea subsea cable.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marea is a joint project between Microsoft, Facebook, and telecommunications company Telxius.<\/p>\n<p>Marea is the most technologically-advanced subsea cable to cross the Atlantic Ocean and is\u00a0the first cable to connect Virginia and Spain &#8211; landing in Virginia Beach and Bilbao.<\/p>\n<p>Being physically separate from other cables ensures more resilient and reliable connections for customers in the US and Europe, said the company.<\/p>\n<p>The 6,600km cable, which weighs 4.65 million kilograms, can transmit up to 160 terabits of data per second.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the equivalent of streaming 71 million high-definition videos simultaneously.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/229177-microsoft-offers-cloud-security-technology-to-keep-out-hackers.html\">Microsoft offers cloud security technology to keep out hackers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marea subsea cable is complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":230441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[161,46273,123],"class_list":["post-230439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-facebook","tag-marea-subsea-cable","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230499,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230439\/revisions\/230499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}