✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-11-29
Reflecting on community feedback and a $10B subsea fiber project by Meta.
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The tech news story that caught my eye this week was a reported subsea fiber deployment plan. $10B is a large exclusive investment even for Meta (Facebook).
Techmeme: Sources: Meta plans to build a fiber-optic subsea cable that is 40,000+ kilometers long and extends around the world, a project that could cost more than $10B (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
By Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
Then again, Google has seen reporting of numerous regular subsea fiber deployments going back 15+ years.
Techmeme: Google announces a $1B investment to improve digital connectivity between the US, Japan, and multiple Pacific island countries through two new subsea cables (Granth Vanaik/Reuters)
By Granth Vanaik / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: Sundar Pichai says Google will invest $1B to support “digital transformation” across Africa, including laying a subsea cable and low-interest loans for SMBs (Annie Njanja/TechCrunch)
By Annie Njanja / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: Google is building a subsea cable called Firmina, after a Brazilian abolitionist, to handle data surge between US, Brazil, and Argentina, due to launch by 2023 (Stephen Shankland/CNET)
By Stephen Shankland / CNET. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: Google says it's building Dunant, a transatlantic cable between US and France, its second private intercontinental cable after Curie, connecting US and Chile (Angela Moscaritolo/PCMag)
By Angela Moscaritolo / PCMag. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: Google announces its investment in the Japan-Guam-Australia (JGA) Cable System to boost cloud performance between Australia and Southeast Asia (Michael D. Francois/The Keyword)
By Michael D. Francois / The Keyword. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: Google plans to build three new undersea fiber optic cables and add five new cloud regions in Montreal, Netherlands, Los Angeles, Finland, and Hong Kong (Ben Treynor Sloss/The Keyword)
By Ben Treynor Sloss / The Keyword. View the full context on Techmeme.
In fact, cooperation between Facebook and Google seemed possible 3 years ago.
Techmeme: Google and Facebook say they will participate in a subsea cable system linking Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines, and Indonesia, launching 2024 (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
By Vlad Savov / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
Prior cooperation included multiple partnerships 7 years ago.
Techmeme: SoftBank, Facebook, Amazon, and others partner to lay 60Tbps Jupiter undersea cable, to open in 2020, from Los Angeles to Japan and the Philippines (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
By Paul Sawers / VentureBeat. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius complete 160Tbps Marea cable, the highest-capacity subsea cable across the Atlantic (Deborah Bach/Microsoft)
By Deborah Bach / Microsoft. View the full context on Techmeme.
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