Networking & Traffic

Today, we’re announcing our most ambitious subsea cable endeavor yet: Project Waterworth. Once complete, the project will reach five major continents and span over 50,000 km (longer than the Earth’s circumference), making it the world’s longest subsea cable project using the highest-capacity technology available.  Project Waterworth will bring industry-leading connectivity to the U.S., India, Brazil, [...] Read More... The post Unlocking global AI potential with next-generation subsea infrastructure appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

We’ve previously described why we think it’s time to leave the leap second in the past. In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, introducing new leap seconds to account for the long-term slowdown of the Earth’s rotation is a risky practice that, frankly, does more harm than good. This is particularly true in the data center [...] Read More... The post How Precision Time Protocol handles leap seconds appeared first on Engineering at Meta.