Meta, NEC and Sumitomo build Petal subsea cable

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 25 Sept, 21:13 · Archive

Meta, NEC and Sumitomo Electric are building Petal, a petabit undersea cable linking the US and France.

Meta, NEC and Sumitomo Electric are building Petal, a subsea cable with one-petabit capacity linking the US and France by 2029. The cable will help meet growing data transmission needs of artificial intelligence companies.

How it is being reported

• Meta unfurls Petal, a 1,000,000 Gbps internet cable 4,300 miles long — that's 3.3 million times quicker than the average US connection, and probably fast enough to transfer all original songs ever produced in less than a secondTechRadar · 25 Sept, 19:05
• NEC building 1-petabit-capacity subsea cable for MetaThe Japan Times · 25 Sept, 08:12

In this story: Meta · NEC · Sumitomo Electric · United States · France

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