Meta Announces Petal, a 1 Pbps Transatlantic Subsea Cable
Meta has announced Petal, a subsea cable designed to carry 1 petabit per second (1 Pbps, or 1,000 terabits per second) over roughly 7,000 km (4,300 miles) between the United States and France. Meta says Petal will be the first cable to deliver petabit capacity across an ocean and the first subsea system to use…