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Submarine cables, while often perceived as ‘insignificant’ parts of communication infrastructure as they lay “hidden” in the seabed, [80] [81] are an essential infrastructure in the digital era, carrying 99% of the data traffic across the oceans. [82] This data includes all internet traffic, military transmissions, and financial ...
Facebook's parent company Meta said it's working on the world's longest undersea cable as part of the social media giant's efforts to connect more people to high-speed internet. Called Project ...
Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) is a 28,000-kilometre-long (17,398 mi; 15,119 nmi) fibre optic mostly-submarine communications cable that connects the United Kingdom, Japan, India, and many places in between.
The Equiano cable, which will link Europe with western and southern Africa was named for Olaudah Equiano, a Nigerian-born writer and abolitionist. [7] The cable was built and laid by Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN). [8] [9] Equiano is viewed as part of Google’s five-year, $1 billion plan that aims to boost digital services across Africa.
A Wired investigation suggests recent internet cable outages in the Red Sea were caused by the sinking of a ship by Houthi rebels. Undersea internet cables underpin our way of life—but they’re ...
The undersea cables that enable global communications had become a legitimate target for Russia, he said. Medvedev's warning came after Nord Stream 2, a pipeline that transfers gas from Russia to ...
The threat to the undersea cables carrying internet data is growing more acute. A Russian unit called GUGI is surveilling them, CNN said. Russia is signaling it could take out the undersea cables ...
Dunant is the first new subsea cable between the US and France in 15 years and will have landing stations at Virginia Beach (US) and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez (France). [3] [4] Telecoms industry analysts have stated that the main purpose of Google's subsea cable investment is twofold: to support quality of service and reduce costs. [5]