In November, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, Meta, which accounts for 10% of billions of users and 22% of all mobile traffic, is a major new new $10 work Breaking news that they are approaching announcing the issue. The 1 billion+ submarine cable project connects the world. The aim was to provide more control over how Meta performs its own services.
Today, Meta reviewed the report details: Project Waterworth is the official name, and when completed it will be 50,000 km long, making it the world's longest submarine cable project.
Along with what I heard about the project a few months ago, the network connects five continents and places landing sites in the US, Brazil, India, South Africa and other major regions. Facebook calls the role it plays in the way networks deploy AI services globally, especially in India opportunities and two important reasons for building networks.
From the network itself, the meta is to use 24 fiber pair cables to open new ground in its architecture and “maximise cables laid in the deep sea.” Up to 7,000 meters” and with new burial techniques to reduce defects in areas that are considered “high risk” due to geographical issues, politics, and sometimes both.
Subsea cables spanning the US, South Africa, India and Asia. Image credit: Meta
Previously, he said that geopolitics is one of the major factors in the market affecting Meta, building its own subsea infrastructure. It certainly plays a role here.
On Thursday, the White House issued a co-leader statement from President Trump and Indian Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi. This detailed a long list of regions in which the two countries cooperate. Appearing in that long document, the joint development of subsea technology as part of the defense partnership, and a commitment to memos on Meta's 50,000-kilometer Waterworth project, and a note on India's role in funding some of it It was.
“By increasing connectivity in the Indian Ocean, the leaders welcomed the announcement of a meta of billions of years of investment in the submarine cable project, which will begin work this year,” the statement said. . “India plans to use reliable vendors to invest in the maintenance, repair and funding of subsea cables in the Indian Ocean.”
About Cable Use: In November, one of our sources was that the growth of AI data centers and cloud services in India, the world's most populous country, is a key reason for the Meta project in the first place. I assumed there was.
Meta refuses to comment on more specific details, but in its blog post, it provided a high-level idea for the application, highlighting the country and AI.
“Digital Communication, Video Experiences, Online Transactions” is one of the applications that Sevea Cable activates, according to a post written by the vice president of Engineering Gaya Nagarajan at Meta and its Global Network Investment Head Alex Handrah Aimé. “Project Waterworth is a number to enhance the size and reliability of the global digital highways by opening three new marine corridors with the rich and high speed connectivity needed to drive AI innovation around the world. It's a multi-year investment of billions of dollars.”
This is not Meta's first undersea cable effort, nor is it the only major technology company to build its own subsea infrastructure.
According to Telecom Analysts Telegeography, Meta is part of 16 existing networks that include 2Africa cables surrounding the continent (others in that project are carriers including Orange, Vodafone, China Mobile, Bayobab/MTN, and more). This new cable project is the first to own by Meta itself.
This puts the meta in the same category as Google. This involves around 33 different routes, including several local initiatives that are solely owned by remote geography tracking. Other large tech companies that are owners or capabilities buyers of Subsci Cable include Amazon and Microsoft, but neither of them are the entire owners of Root itself.