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London-registered network operator EXA Infrastructure has this morning announced their plan to build a new 6,552km long transatlantic subsea fibre optic cable between New Jersey (USA) and Brean (UK), which will be called EXA Meridian and is claimed to be the “first transatlantic cable built by a single operator in a decade“.
The new cable, which is currently scheduled to be ready for service in Q4 2029, has been designed to support 24 fibre pairs and is capable of delivering over 500Tbps (Terabits per second) of “scalable, long-term capacity for Hyperscalers, Neoclouds, financial institutions, government and research organisations“.
EXA Meridian is intended to help feed the growing demand for traffic being generated by AI, cloud, and distributed data centre architectures. In this field the largest capacity buyers are increasingly procuring spectrum and complete fibre pairs, rather than individual wavelengths, and the cable has thus been purpose-built to take advantage of this market shift.