Anjana Is Ready: The Atlantic's Half Petabit Leviathan Is Here

Anjana is a new Facebook Trans-Atlantic cable whose 24 fibre pairs collectively can push 480 Tbps. It is a badass cable. The equivalent of SpaceX' Super Heavy Launcher without the explosions. 🙂 The cable lands at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Santander, Spain. Interconnection points include Atlanta, Ashburn Equinix, Madrid, and Paris. A 100G from either Atlanta or Ashburn Equinix POP to Madrid, Marseille or Paris is $6,800 MRC on a three year contact with no install charges.

Anjana's Key Strengths:

1. Physical diversity: It has the most Southern landing for a US Trans-Atlantic cable. Hundreds of miles South of the Dunant and Marea cable landing station at Virginia Beach.

2. High capacity mean attractive pricing.

3. META cable means high uptime. Note the cable path lies in relatively deep ocean water (symbolized by dark blue) for most of its journey. This sharply reduces the chance of boats damaging the cable. In contrast, the French coast and UK waters are shallow, defined as one thousand meters or less. Most man-made cable damage occurs in areas where the depth is less than a thousand meters.

4. Excellent for carriers wishing to move traffic between Southern Europe (where Marseille provides the subsea gateway to the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia) and Latin America.