Subsea cable system
MAREA
The 6,600 km transatlantic cable between Virginia Beach and Sopelana near Bilbao, owned by Meta, Microsoft and Telxius, which also operates the Spanish landing; 200 Tbit/s, in service since 2018 and marketed as the lowest-latency route between the US and southern Europe.
- Lead landing
- Status
- In service 19 Sept 2026
- Ownership
- Consortium
- RFS
- 2018-052026-09-19source ↗
- Capacity
- 200 Tbit/s2026-09-19source ↗
- Length
- 6,600 km2026-09-19source ↗
- Landings
- Virginia Beach, VA, USBilbao, ES
- Customers
- Wholesale
- Domains
- Subsea
- Website
- telxius.com/en/cable/marea ↗
Relationships5
Owned by
Landing parties
Suppliers
Ecosystem
owned by
- Subseaactive · Reported
- Subseaactive · Reported
- Subseaactive · Company statement
partners with
- Subsea · landing partyactive · Company statement
supplied by
- Subseaactive · Reported