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Hard wired
While satellites and WiFi get the attention, it's huge undersea cables that still make the world work.
Most of the long history of transoceanic communications has been dominated by one material: copper. From the earliest telegraph cables right through to the coaxial cables carrying thousands of ...
US information technology giant Google has announced it would be bringing a 13,500-kilometer long cable connecting the Buenos Aires seaside resort of Las Toninas with Myrtle Beach (USA), through ...
Japanese corporations NEC and NTT have successfully trialed a revolutionary submarine cable technology set to drastically enhance internet speeds under the sea. The transoceanic-class experiment ...
If you want to go high bandwidth, fiber optics is the way to go. From trans-oceanic cables to the yet-unseen ‘fiber to every home,’ fiber optics allows a lot more bandwidth than a copper cable.
While data centres can be built within 2 years, a transoceanic cable system takes at least 5 years to build, Scott Cowling, director, Network Investments at Meta said, calling for an attractive ...
While India has become the largest data generating nation, and hosts more than 152 data centres, it is fed by only 18 undersea cables.