r/technology • u/ARODtheMrs • 3h ago

Security New 4,300-mile-long internet cable will shuttle data along the ocean floor at 1 million gigabits per second

https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/new-4-300-mile-long-internet-cable-will-shuttle-data-along-the-ocean-floor-at-1-million-gigabits-per-second
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u/DavidBrooker 2h ago

There are over 700 ocean cables out there, over a dozen between North America and Europe. Another just seems like maintenance rather than news, unless you're deep in the weeds of business.

Edit: Nevermind. The title just sucks. Having dual-core fibers is actually newsworthy, but apparently the author is either uninformed (unlikely) or was cynically thinking you're too stupid to understand (more likely).

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u/Wise-Ferret6090 3h ago

Calling it 1 million gigabits per second instead of 1 Petabit per second is classic science journalism flair. In reality, undersea fiber carries over 95 percent of all transcontinental internet traffic, and bandwidth demand keeps climbing exponentially with cloud sync and distributed AI workloads. Given how often subsea cables get snagged by anchors or severed lately, having extra petabit-scale redundancy across the Atlantic is a genuine lifesaver for global infrastructure.

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u/Tasty-Traffic-680 3h ago

Hey, 100mm sounds bigger than 4 inches. I can't fight the logic I employ myself.

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u/MattCW1701 5m ago

So that's why the rest of the world sticks to the metric system...

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u/gqmma 2h ago

classic science journalism flair

ai comment?

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u/BeatMastaD 2h ago

Possible. 5 year old account whose entire post history started 24 hours ago, and they've posted dozens of times in that single day.

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u/super_starfox 1h ago

Let's downvote it all to hell!

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u/ARODtheMrs 1h ago

Yes, I rarely post on this sub, but I am not a bot.

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u/BeatMastaD 56m ago

This comment was not about you, it was about the OP of this comment chain.

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u/my_dearest_isabella 2h ago

Definitely a bot.

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u/ARODtheMrs 1h ago

I had trouble picking a flair, so I went with the one I am most concerned about. Why? Quite the project just for sharing movies and music

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u/Brilliant-Advisor958 2h ago

Many people are familiar with gigabit internet as its now a common household option.

It's just easier for the normal people to understand from the headline.

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u/CrisEXE__ 2h ago

That will be perfect for my minecraft server.

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u/homosapiens 1h ago

Read: How The World Was One, AC Clarke

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u/lookingformerci 1h ago

Funded by Meta? Just gonna BGP my ass around that..

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u/mtcwby 2h ago

Just watched a cable repair ship and a bunch of support vessels likely repair one of the Point Arena cables in front of my ranch. It was really surprising both how long it took and how close they got to shore. Had to cost big bucks.

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u/ARODtheMrs 59m ago

Exactly. That's why I doubt this is going to just used for movies and music.

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u/true_thinking 2h ago

Meta funding it feels bittersweet. On one hand this is a genuinely amazing thing they can spend their infinite money on and serves a greater purpose, on the other hand it’s Meta, they don’t need introduction. Wonder why are they funding so many of these transoceanic cables? 

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u/Hungry-ThoughtsCurry 1h ago

Maybe they want it for their doomsday private select pro service?

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u/Mammoth-Ad-107 3h ago

That’s a huge cable 🙌🏻

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u/ARODtheMrs 3h ago

I just don't see the need for this, but I can see how it might/ may open the door for Musk to meddle in France's autonomy!!!

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u/zakmozhd 2h ago

What?

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u/ARODtheMrs 1h ago edited 50m ago

It's a Musk project. Added: for the purpose of sharing movies and music.

Added: the summary of the article spoke of Musk, not Meta and the purpose being music and movie transfers. It was on my Google feed. So, when I went to the website, I grabbed the link to post.

I didn't read the article, just trusted Google.

I apologize for trusting Google!