Anjana, the first transatlantic submarine cable system wholly owned by Meta, has been successfully landed in the port of Santander (Spain).
This is Meta’s third investment in a submarine cable that reaches Spain, after Marea and 2Africa, and the first completely owned by it. It will serve to connect Europe and the United States and turns Spain into the center of Europe’s connectivity with America, Africa and, in the future, Asia.
Underwater cables lay the foundation for the global Internet, connecting people and continents. Specifically, Anjana will connect the beach of Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, United States) with the coast near Santander. All thanks to its 7,121 km long, with 24 pairs of fibers.
Each pair of fibers has a design capacity of approximately 20 Tbps, 200 times more capacity than the transatlantic cables of the 2000s. Thus, with a total capacity of almost 500 Terabits per second (Tbps), Anjana will be the highest capacity cable system in the world connecting transoceanic continents today.
Meta ensures that it invests in international connectivity to unite people in a solid and reliable way – when using its products and services – as well as being key to economic development.
The company has shown in a statement that it is willing to collaborate with telecommunications companies, technology companies and other interested parties to contribute to the next generation of connectivity systems that help bring people together.
It is not the only technology company that is committed to making investments of this type and that takes Spain as a reference point, given the country’s geostrategic situation. Google, for example, has also built a cable linking Europe and Africa to improve communications by connecting people on both continents.