According to a 2024 Ericsson Mobility Report, global mobile network traffic, excluding fixed wireless access (FWA), will reach 303 exabytes per month by the end of 2030, roughly three times the 2024 level. Although not all mobile traffic crosses oceans, growth in cloud services, video, AI workloads, and international data exchange is increasing demand for transoceanic capacity.
Meta has announced Petal, a planned 7,000-kilometer subsea cable linking the U.S. and France with a designed capacity of 1 petabit per second, or 1 Pbps. Meta said the cable is expected to enter service in 2029 and deliver twice the capacity per fiber without a…
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