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Facebook will participate in the Apricot subsea cable system project, along with regional and global partners including Google and Philippines telecommunications provider PLDT.
Apricot, which is still subject to regulatory approvals, is aimed at delivering internet capacity, redundancy and reliability to the Asia-Pacific region.
The 12,000-kilometer-long cable will connect Guam, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan, and Facebook manager of network investments Nico Roehrich added in a Newsroom post that it “will feature a state-of-the-art submersible reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer employing wavelength selective switch for a gridless and flexible bandwidth configuration, based on space division multiplexing design.”
Apricot is expected to be activated in 2024, with an initial design capacity of more than 190 terabits per second.
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