Huawei is working with another company, Hibernia Atlantic, to lay the first transatlantic fiber-optic submarine cable in a decade, a $400-million-plus project that will save traders five milliseconds.

NEC Corporation has won a contract from Facebook to build transatlantic subsea fiber-optic cable connecting the USA and Europe. NEC said its 24 fiber pair cable and repeaters will enable customers ...

The first telegraph cable across the English Channel was laid in 1850, and they have increased in number and sophistication ever since. This ship installed one of the first Transatlantic Telegraph ...

That began to change in 1988 with the laying of the first transatlantic fiber-optic telephone cable, TAT-8. With a capacity of 40,000 simultaneous phone calls on just two pairs of single-mode ...

A team of researchers from Infinera has achieved new benchmarks for efficiency for transatlantic fiber optic cables. Testing an emerging approach for how the light signals are transmitted ...

According to the latest set of documents from Edward Snowden that were released by the Guardian today, the Britsh spy agency GCHQ has been tapping into 46 transatlantic fiber-optic cables that ...

WASHINGTON - Google has applied to the US regulator for a license to build a 6,900-kilometer submarine fiber-optic cable ... reads the letter. The transatlantic cable system is called "Nuvem ...

A peculiar trend is sweeping the transatlantic fiber-optic cable industry. After more than five years of rampant pricing declines, the cost of sending internet traffic from North America to Europe ...

Dec. 2, 2024 — Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they've become a major part of everything from medical devices to high-speed internet and cable TV. But as it turns out ...