{"id":30416,"date":"2017-11-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=30416"},"modified":"2022-05-01T09:13:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T07:13:48","slug":"atlantic-high-performance-submarine-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/atlantic-high-performance-submarine-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic High Power Submarine Cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transatlantic data traffic will continue to grow as more consumers use smart mobile devices to access the Internet. According to a Brookings study, 93 percent of mobile devices in the U.S. and 83 percent in Western Europe will be smart devices as early as next year.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, Facebook and Telxius, a Spanish telecommunications infrastructure company, have joined forces in a joint venture to lay a new transatlantic submarine cable between the U.S. city of Virginia Beach and the Spanish city of Bilbao.<\/p><div id=\"great-1350646427\" class=\"great-fullsize-content-en\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6yfv7eho3Gc\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Fullsize\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fullsize\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-400x50.jpg 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-100x13.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-480x60.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-640x80.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-720x90.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-960x120.jpg 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-1168x146.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-18x2.jpg 18w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-600x75.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The laying of the cable has been completed and commissioning is planned for early 2018. Called Marea (Spanish: \"Tide\"), the cable link between the USA and Europe is more than 6400 kilometers long and, with a transmission speed of 160 terabits per second, the most powerful transatlantic submarine cable.<\/p>\n<p>It's more than 16 million times faster than the average home Internet connection and offers the ability to stream 71 million HD videos simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The connection point to Marea in Bilbao also allows network hubs to be realized in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The enormous bandwidth will help meet the rapidly growing global demand for Internet and cloud services such as Microsoft Azure.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30422\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Marea-transatlantic-szene-1711.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Atlantic High Power Submarine Cable\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30422\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Marea-transatlantic-szene-1711.jpg\" alt=\"Marea Transatlantic cable submarine cable\" width=\"900\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Marea-transatlantic-szene-1711.jpg 900w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Marea-transatlantic-szene-1711-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Marea-transatlantic-szene-1711-100x77.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Marea-transatlantic-szene-1711-480x371.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Marea-transatlantic-szene-1711-640x494.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Marea-transatlantic-szene-1711-720x556.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marea submarine cable lies underground for most of its route at an average depth of about 3300 meters. It is about one and a half times as thick as a garden hose and contains eight pairs of fiber optic cables sheathed in copper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Internet connection between the U.S. and Spain offers transmission speeds of 160 terabits per 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