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Microsoft invests in transoceanic cables
Following Google down to the ocean floor and Microsoft. With the same purpose - laying transoceanic cables.
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the investment in the company Hibernia Networks and Aqua Comms . Each of them will pave the fiber optic cable. They will join Microsoft data centers in North America, Ireland and the UK.
Thus, Azure data centers on different continents will exchange data at high speed, in large volumes and with fewer delays. In particular, a new line of communication Express by Hibernia Networks has a capacity of 10 Tb / s (and scaled).
The company Aqua Comms, in turn, is going to lay a cable AEConnect.
More addition, Microsoft has joined the consortium, which includes China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, KT Corporation, as well as TE SubCom contractor cabling. This consortium is building a new transoceanic network New Cross Pacific (NCP) , connecting Asia and the west coast of North America. Cabling System provides a throughput of up to 80 Tb / s.
As a contribution to Microsoft promises to invest in the construction in the US ground station for the reception of transoceanic cable.
In addition to increasing the speed of the channel between Asia and America should significantly reduce the costs of operation of cloud infrastructure Microsoft, which is important in the competition.
"Over the past nine months, Microsoft has made significant investments in submarine and terrestrial" dark "fiber-optic channels by entering into a partnership, which encompasses many oceans and continents, - пишет the official blog Azure David Crowley (David Crowly), managing director of Microsoft's supporting network infrastructure. - And today our relations across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were even more ».
We add that last year, Microsoft bought a strip in transoceanic cable between the United States and Brazil, and then open a new area of availability Azure.
Cloud division - one of the fastest growing Microsoft, and the new strategy of the company is to promote this particular line of business. "We need a strong underwater communications strategy to ensure users a high degree of access to their data," - said David Crowley.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/250266/
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the investment in the company Hibernia Networks and Aqua Comms . Each of them will pave the fiber optic cable. They will join Microsoft data centers in North America, Ireland and the UK.
Thus, Azure data centers on different continents will exchange data at high speed, in large volumes and with fewer delays. In particular, a new line of communication Express by Hibernia Networks has a capacity of 10 Tb / s (and scaled).
The company Aqua Comms, in turn, is going to lay a cable AEConnect.
More addition, Microsoft has joined the consortium, which includes China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, KT Corporation, as well as TE SubCom contractor cabling. This consortium is building a new transoceanic network New Cross Pacific (NCP) , connecting Asia and the west coast of North America. Cabling System provides a throughput of up to 80 Tb / s.
As a contribution to Microsoft promises to invest in the construction in the US ground station for the reception of transoceanic cable.
In addition to increasing the speed of the channel between Asia and America should significantly reduce the costs of operation of cloud infrastructure Microsoft, which is important in the competition.
"Over the past nine months, Microsoft has made significant investments in submarine and terrestrial" dark "fiber-optic channels by entering into a partnership, which encompasses many oceans and continents, - пишет the official blog Azure David Crowley (David Crowly), managing director of Microsoft's supporting network infrastructure. - And today our relations across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were even more ».
We add that last year, Microsoft bought a strip in transoceanic cable between the United States and Brazil, and then open a new area of availability Azure.
Cloud division - one of the fastest growing Microsoft, and the new strategy of the company is to promote this particular line of business. "We need a strong underwater communications strategy to ensure users a high degree of access to their data," - said David Crowley.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/250266/
