Instead, nearly 380 undersea cables stretching over ... These miles of fiber-optic cable are then wound into spools the size ...

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we should be able to do the pipelining for the future cables,” he said. Submarine fiber networks facilitate data traffic across several points in the world, improving access to the internet.