Meta unfurls Petal, a 1,000,000 Gbps internet cable 4,300 miles long — that's 3.3 million times quicker than the average US connection, and probably fast enough to transfer all original songs ever produced in less than a second

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Meta, NEC, and Sumitomo Electric are building Petal, a petabit undersea cable linking the US and France by 2029.

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• T2Meta unfurls Petal, a 1,000,000 Gbps internet cable 4,300 miles long — that's 3.3 million times quicker than the average US connection, and probably fast enough to transfer all original songs ever produced in less than a secondTechRadar / Tom's Guide / PCWorld / Pocket-lint / Stuff25 Sept, 18:05