To meet the growing demand for cloud storage requires such a large capacity and can connect one country to another.

Now, the submarine cable connecting North America with mainland Europe has been completed to meet the demand.

The 6,600 km (4,000 mile) transatlantic cable, nicknamed Marea, is over 17,000 feet below the Atlantic and stretches from Virginia Beach to Bilbao on the north coast of Spain.

The project was announced in May, although work did not start until August, with a settlement plan in October last year.

Marea project is a collaboration between Facebook, Microsoft and Telxius, the telecommunications infrastructure subsidiary of Telefónica.

The interests of Microsoft and Facebook are working together to increase the speed of the global internet, which should be surprising as they rely on high-speed data transfers for their respective services.

"Marea is working to improve the global Internet infrastructure to quickly meet the demand for Internet and cloud services in an increasingly connected world," said Suresh Kumar, vice president of cloud infrastructure and cloud operations.

Marea is Spanish which means "ups and downs". This project is the latest in a series of collaborations involving major US technology companies and submarine cable infrastructure.

Back in 2015, Microsoft has announced a number of partnerships to connect its global data center with submarine fiber optic cable, partly involved in a consortium with China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom and KT Corporation to connect Microsoft with China.

Elsewhere, Google also Facebook last year partnered with submarine cable projects between Los Angeles and Hong Kong, while Google's transparantional internet cable from Japan to Oregon was opened for business.

Earlier this year, Google revealed that it also supports Indigo, the new submarine cable between Asia and Australia. Likewise with competitors of cloud computing systems, Amazon.

Amazon has made the first major submarine cable investment in the past year, Hawaiki transpacific, which should increase the latency for Amazon Web Services (AWS) users in Australia and New Zealand.
Although the cable must carry a greater speed to connect between North America and Europe, it is also possible to have a knock-on effect for Asia and Africa connected via the same land.
So quoted from Digital Trends

by @relata