THE INTERNET'S REAL BACKBONE: UNDERSEA CABLES
Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables beneath the ocean floor form the physical infrastructure that connects the global internet. These delicate networks are critical to global connectivity but remain vulnerable to natural disasters.
In 2006, then-Senator Ted Stevens coined an infamous term for how to understand the internet: It’s a “series of tubes.”…
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Underneath the world's oceans, miles and miles of fiber optic-cables send packets of information from one location to th…
Underneath the world's oceans, miles and miles of fiber optic-cables send packets of information from one location to th…