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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

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

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