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PREPARING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ADDITIONAL SUBSEA CABLES IN VIRGINIA BEACH BY GREG TWITT
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irginia Beach is located on the Eastern Seaboard of United States, and is ideally situated in the Mid Atlantic for accommodating Subsea Cables, and is the host of three of the fastest subsea cables located in the Telxius Cable landing Station: • Marea, owners: Microsoft, Facebook and Telxius, Virginia Beach to Sopelana Spain, 8 fiber pairs at up to 200tbs • Brusa, owners: Telxius, linking Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza (Brazil) with San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Virginia Beach, has 8 fiber pairs running at 160Tbs. • Google’s Dunant cable from France’s Bordeaux region to Virginia Beach, with an expected RFS this year, is the fastest cable yet, with 12 fiber pairs at 250 tbs, and is over 50% faster than its roommate, Marea. Why is there so much talk about Virginia Beach being
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“the ideal Hub” for Transatlantic, Latin American and Eastern Seaboard traffic? Answer: Geographic location. Located within seven miles from the existing and proposed beach manholes, Virginia Beach’s designated Data Center Park, Corporate Landing Park is home of Telxius’s Cable Landing Station and the Globalinx Carrier Neutral Data Center complex, which has been in operation for the