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Facebook<\/a> and Microsoft<\/a> on Thursday announced that they are teaming up to build a subsea cable across the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

In a blog post<\/a>, Microsoft says that the goal of the cable is to \u201chelp meet the growing customer demand for high speed, reliable connections for cloud and online services\u201d for Microsoft, Facebook and others.<\/p>\n

Construction on the new \u201cMAREA\u201d cable will start in August and is expected to be completed in October 2017. The cable system will be 6,600 km (4,100 miles) in length. Microsoft and Facebook say<\/a> this is \u201cthe highest-capacity subsea cable to ever cross the Atlantic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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