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Microsoft boosts investment in undersea cables to secure SaaS future

Microsoft has teamed up with half a dozen Asian telecommunication companies to deploy more than 13,000km of fibre optic cables that will link Hillsboro, Oregon in the west coast of the US, with Chongming, Nanhui, and Lingang on the Chinese mainland; Busan, South Korea; Maruyama, Japan; and finally Toucheng, Taiwan. In a blog post, Microsoft’s Managing Director, Network Enablement, David Crowley, noted that the company had been investing “significantly” in