NEC building 1-petabit capacity subsea cable for Meta
8 hours ago
- NEC will build a subsea cable for Meta Platforms named Petal.
- The cable will have twice the capacity of the best existing cables.
- It will be capable of transmitting 125,000 gigabytes of data per second across the Atlantic.
- The cable is expected to be operational by 2029.
- NEC's director of submarine business development, Takahiro Kashima, calls the project significant for future growth.