Since the 1850s, we've been laying cables across oceans to become better connected. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optic cables constantly transmitting data between nations.

Fiber-optic cable would go overhead on utility poles ... a hundred hours of digital video or 30 million phone calls across the Atlantic. An estimated 35 million miles (56 million kilometers ...

Known as Project Waterworth, the 50,000-kilometer cable would ... one was laid across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858. Globally, there are currently around 1.4 million kilometers of these garden hose-sized ...

Fiber optic rollout is a notoriously difficult ... at 320,000 households and has laid 7,500 miles of fiber cable across the ...