Transoceanic fiber cables connect North America to Brazil and Europe from Virginia Beach
MAREA and BRUSA, the newest and fastest ultra-high-speed transatlantic fiber optic telecommunication cables in the world, connect Virginia Beach to Brazil and Europe through a new 24,000-sf cable landing station operated by Telxius, the infrastructure arm of a Spanish telecom company: Telefónica.
The first one MAREA, owned by Microsoft and Facebook and operated by Telxius, brought the first ultra-high-speed 200 terabit fiber optic cable from Bilbao, Spain, to Corporate Landing. BRUSA, owned and operated by Telxius, brought the second cable (138 Tbps) from Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza (Brazil) to Virginia Beach in 2018. One additional subsea cable, Dunant, owned by Google, connected Virginia Beach to Europe in February 2021. View map of the Virginia Beach cables.
Stretching 4,000 miles (6,600 km) across from Virginia Beach to Bilbao, MAREA is capable of transferring data at a staggering 200 terabits per second. That’s more than 16 million times faster than the average home internet connection, making it capable of streaming 71 million high-definition videos simultaneously. Source: Microsoft
The cable landing station in Corporate Landing Business Park provides high capacity, Dominion Energy power certified and reliable connectivity options to carriers, data centers and co-location facility operators. The park is a revolutionary idea that is allowing data center operators to increase efficiency and speed-to-market while reducing capital costs. In a short period of time, Virginia Beach has grown into a diverse new landing site for new subsea cable systems on the East Coast.