Meta's Petal Subsea Cable Is A World First - Here's Why
Meta says Petal will double subsea cable capacity without a proportional power increase and could let 75% of the world stream music at once.
- Meta announced plans for Petal, a 4,300-mile subsea cable linking the United States and France with capacity of 1 million gigabits per second, expected to become operational in 2029.
- As AI usage and cloud service reliance expand, Meta—which has invested in more than 20 subsea cables including Marea and Amitie—designed Petal to meet surging global data movement demands.
- Developed with Japanese tech firms NEC and Sumitomo Electric, the cable utilizes multi-core fiber technology with 96 individual cores, enabling Petal to double existing transoceanic cable capacity without proportional power increases.
- Eduardo Mateo, chief strategy officer of the Submarine Networks Division at NEC, called the project "a major technological milestone," noting capacity could support roughly 75% of the world's population streaming music simultaneously.
- While Petal offers massive bandwidth, it will not directly increase individual home internet speeds; instead, it strengthens critical subsea infrastructure carrying around 99% of the world's intercontinental internet traffic.
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