Facebook, Microsoft planning undersea cable across Atlantic to expand internet infrastructure

Virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) was probably the last time Microsoft and Facebook were spoken about in the same breath -- the HoloLens is Microsoft's AR project and Facebook owns VR tech firm Oculus. Now, the two tech titans are joining hands to connect the world through an undersea cable.

The undersea cable will be called MAREA, which means "Tide" in Spanish, and will run across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. The cable will be used by Microsoft and Facebook to help meet the growing customer demand for high speed, reliable connections for cloud and online services that Microsoft and Facebook's customers are demanding, Microsoft announced in a blog post.

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