Facebook to lay subsea cables boosting connectivity between Asia, America

Facebook has unveiled plans for two subsea cables that it says will boost connectivity and capacity between Asia and North America. Dubbed Echo and Bifrost, the new cables are touted to push up transpacific capacity by 70% and will establish the first direct link between Singapore and the US. The two subsea cables also will be the first transpacific lines to run through a new route across the Java Sea, according to a joint post by Facebook’s network investments director Kevin Salvadori and manager Nico Roehrich. The cables will connect Singapore, Indonesia, and North America, and see the US social…