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Inside Petal: Building the World’s First Petabit-Class Transoceanic Subsea Cable

September 21

Petal, the next step in Meta’s subsea innovation, will be the first subsea cable to deliver petabit capacity at transoceanic distances, connecting France and the United States over approximately…

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