Microsoft's network moves a gargantuan 300 billion packets per second over the wide area network (WAN) backbone.

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Our wide area network (WAN) contains over 600,000 kilometers of fiber optic and undersea cable accessed through over 190 points of presence (POPs) to better facilitate connectivity.

Microsoft has over 18.5 million kilometers of cable connecting our cloud and AI infrastructure to more than 625,000 network devices, in our datacenter regions.