From: digest-replies@telecom-digest.org   
      
   https://subseacables.blogspot.com/2024/10/breaking-story-faceboo   
   -building-subsea.html   
      
   October 17, 2024   
      
   Several sources have whispered in my ear that META is planning a new 16   
   fibre pair cable that will encompass the world going from the US East   
   Coast to the US West Coast via the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and the   
   Pacific. The most ambitious subsea project ever undertaken. I do not   
   know the exact routing. I know that the cable will launch from the   
   American East Coast and will go down the West African Coast to South   
   Africa and then head straight to Mumbai. It is not clear if Europe will   
   be online or not. From Mumbai it will indubitably go to Singapore with   
   possible branches to Australia and Japan. Clearly one branch will make a   
   direct line to the Californian coast.   
      
   This semi-secret cable reflects META's desire for network resiliency   
   given the four month Red Sea down time that AAE-1 and other subsea work   
   horses suffered during the first half of 2024. It appears willing to   
   suffer a latency penalty to avoid the Red Sea as well as Egypt's   
   expensive digital toll roads.   
   ...   
      
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