Facebook to surround all of Africa in optical fibre and tinfoil

Plans new sub cable running from the UK to Spain on just-about the longest route possible

Facebook has backed a new submarine cable that it says will circumnavigate Africa and deliver three times more capacity that is currently connected to the continent.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Networks
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