Facebook Contracts NEC to Build the World's Fastest Subsea Cable

The new transatlantic cable is said to offer transfer speeds up to 0.5 Petabits per second.

NEC has revealed some more information about Facebook's plan to build a new fiber optic subsea cable in a bid to improve data transfer speeds between the US and Europe.

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announced on Oct. 7 that it wants to "improve internet capacity across the world by sea, …