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Hampton explores joining Southside Network Authority to bring transatlantic MARIA cable capacity across the water
Summary
City CIO David Williams and Southside Network Authority representatives outlined a plan to extend an ultra-high-speed regional fiber ring to the Peninsula, citing the MARIA subsea cable, an estimated $15 million build cost for Hampton and Newport News and a $250,000 planning phase for asset/needs assessment and conceptual design.
David Williams, Hampton’s chief information officer, briefed the City Council work session on Oct. 26 about a regional broadband initiative to extend the Southside Network Authority’s fiber ring — which connects to the MARIA transatlantic subsea cable in Virginia Beach — across the Hampton Roads waterways to the Peninsula.
Williams told council the MARIA cable links a Virginia Beach landing point to Europe and represents very high capacity fiber. “These are the fastest, this iteration is the fastest cable in the world,” he said, adding a characterization provided by a vendor that the capacity is many millions of times faster than consumer gigabit services. The city’s stated objectives are to increase…
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