If you’ve ever sent an email, streamed a video, or checked your bank account, chances are your data traveled across an ...

Florida is now home to a major piece of global internet infrastructure. Google has announced “Sol,” a new undersea cable ...

What is a submarine cable? A submarine cable is a fiber optic cable laid in the ocean, connecting two or more landing points. Rarely much wider than a garden hose, today cables generally comprise of ...

The 485 multiterabit-per-second undersea data cables that span the world’s oceans link the globe and ... cable-laying ships equipped with giant spools of fiber-optic cable navigate the ...

Here's a map from telecom data company TeleGeography that shows how the Internet works around the world. The map charts out all the undersea fiber optic cables that send Internet communication ...

On July 29, 1858, two steam-powered battleships met in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. There, they connected two ends of a 4,000 kilometer (2,500 mile) long, 1.5 centimeter (0.6 inch) wide cable ...

Typical double-armored submarine fiber cable. Legend: 1) Polyethylene, 2) Mylar tape, 3) Galvanized steel wires, 4) Aluminum water barrier, 5) Polycarbonate, 6) ...

On July 29, 1858, two steam-powered battleships met in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. There, they connected two ends of a 4,000 kilometer (2,500 mile) long, 1.5 centimeter (0.6 inch) wide cable ...

Hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable lay on the ocean floors, a crucial part of the global internet's backbone, and only rarely do ship anchors, undersea landslides or saboteurs ...

But new research from Berkeley could turn existing undersea fiber optic cables into a network of seismographs, creating an unprecedented global view of the Earth's tectonic movements.

Undersea cables are the backbone of the internet. Connecting places like the United States to Europe, or France to India , these submarine fiber optic cables permit the world’s web traffic to flow.