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Meta unveiled Petal: the first submarine cable with a capacity of 1 petabit per second

Key points • Meta announced the Petal project, the first trans-oceanic submarine cable with a capacity of 1 petabit per second. • The infrastructure will be laid over approximately 7,000 km between the United States and France and is expected to become operational in 2029. • Doubling the capacity is made possible by a wide deployment of dual-core optical fibers and dedicated amplifiers. • Submarine cables carry about 99% of intercontinental data traffic, with Israel relying on routes […]