For all our reliance on mobile networks and Wifi, the majority of the net continues to be built on good old physical cables. Now Facebook and Microsoft have teamed up to construct the most strong transatlantic cable.

Cable will be kilometer the 6,600 Telxius by managed and operated – a recently minted business – and runs that is telecommunications infrastructure from Virginia , Spain., USA to Bilbao

Current transatlantic cables run to northern Europe from the New York and New Jersey. MAREA will be the first to join the US to southern Europe, and will link farther to network hubs in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

The firms expect some physical separation form present connections will help allow for more powerful, more dependable connections in these regions – not to mention offloading some bandwidth from cables that are current.