Amazon Web Services (AWS) will lay a new subsea cable across the ocean floor, connecting Maryland and Ireland. Amazon is already working on the cable, dubbed Fastnet, which should be up and running in 2028, David Selby, Director of Global Network Planning and Acquisition at AWS, tells us in an interview. Fastnet promises to be a “state-of-the-art” fiber optic cable system, transporting over 320 terabits per second. That’s enough to stream 12.5 million high-definition films simultaneously, or “transmit the entire digitized Library of Congress three times every second,” Amazon says. Fastnet will increase the capacity and resilience of Amazon’s subsea cable network, serving as a backup route and adding diversity to the undisclosed routes it already has. It’s Maryland’s first cable; most on the East Coast of the US come out of New York and New Jersey, home to major cable provider Subcom, one of several partners Amazon is working with on Fastnet, Selby says.

Full report : AWS says it is developing Fastnet, a subsea cable buried ~1.5m deep and with a capacity over 320Tbps, aiming to debut in 2028 to connect Maryland and Ireland.