{"id":624478,"date":"2026-09-23T02:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624478\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T02:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:16:19","slug":"japans-nec-joins-meta-on-ultrafast-us-france-undersea-fiber-optic-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624478\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s NEC joins Meta on ultrafast US-France undersea fiber-optic line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/telecommunication\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Telecommunication<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Project aims for world&#8217;s 1st petabit-class underwater connection as AI booms<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20260922N NEC Meta\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">NEC will handle design and construction for Meta Platforms&#8217; Petal undersea cable project.\u00a0(Photo by Kazuho Fujiwara)<\/p>\n<p>NATSUKI YAMAMOTO<\/p>\n<p>September 23, 2026 06:29 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese technology group NEC is taking part in an effort by Meta Platforms, the American owner of Facebook and Instagram, to lay a subsea fiber-optic cable connecting the U.S. and France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Telecommunication Project aims for world&#8217;s 1st petabit-class underwater connection as AI booms NEC will handle design and construction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,9918,85,46,6198,114577,46951,1430,155810,43938,282324,282323],"class_list":["post-624478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-fiber-optic","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japans","tag-joins","tag-line","tag-meta","tag-nec","tag-ultrafast","tag-undersea","tag-us-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}