Undersea Cables transport 99% of all communication. Links inside.

Just how big is this network?

TeleGeography lists nearly 350 cables — some cross oceans, others follow coasts down along continents. The whole network of submarine cables spans more than 550,00 miles, with some being buried as far underwater as Mount Everest towers above ground.

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But ... but ... but ... SATELLITES! NASA!

Google launches giant undersea internet cable

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Google's internet cable:



James Titcomb

30 June 2016 • 9:25am

The world’s highest-capacity undersea internet cable, a 5,600-mile link between the US and Japan backed by Google has been activated.

The fibre cable, which can transport data at 60 terabits per second (60 million Mbps) is expected to be a significant boost to trans-pacific internet speeds.


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Submarine Cable Map 2016

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A submarine power cable is a major transmission cable for carrying electric power below the surface of the water.[1] These are called "submarine" because they usually carry electric power beneath salt water (arms of the ocean, seas, straits, etc.) but it is also possible to use submarine power cables beneath fresh water (large lakes and rivers).

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Google reveals plan to build THREE new undersea internet cables and add five regions to its expanding cloud service

The company, which has invested $30 billion in infrastructure over the past three years, said its Netherlands and Montreal regions will open in the first quarter of 2018, followed by Los Angeles, Finland, and Hong Kong.

Google plans to commission the three subsea cables in 2019, the internet giant said in a blog post.

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How are major undersea cables laid in the ocean?


Laying of cables in the oceans of our world is a fascinating business. Men and women toil long and tedious hours to make this possible.

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Jeff Bridges Jul 27, 2015

Its amazing that we have this kind of internet structure in place. I had no idea there were fiber-optic cables that ran on the sea bed. I thought it somehow used satellites. Fiber-optic cables are much faster, can handle much more bandwidth, and are more reliable.

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Used to date a girl whose father was CEO of one of these companie$$

yeah the links are inside the tubes

Jul 25, 2012
The Undersea Cables that Connect the World


These amazing fibre optic cables traverse oceans and span hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

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Aust to pay two-thirds of undersea cable

By Australian Associated Press

Published: 06:35, 1 May 2018 | Updated: 06:35, 1 May 2018


The Turnbull government is considering Sydney, Townsville or the Sunshine Coast as the Australian link point for undersea high speed communications cables for Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

The project will connect the two Pacific island countries with Australia via fibre optic cables more than 4000 kilometres long to improve internet affordability and reliability.

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Greek power grid launches tender for Crete link project

By Reuters

Published: 18:22, 11 April 2018 | Updated: 18:22, 11 April 2018



ATHENS, April 11 - Greece's power grid operator has launched an international open tender for a project linking the island of Crete to the mainland grid via undersea cables, the energy ministry said on Wednesday.

The project linking Crete to the Peloponnese peninsula is part of a 2 billion euro ($2.5 billion), 10-year investment plan to connect some of Greece's islands to the mainland.


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There is a huge system of fibre-optic cables lying underneath the world's oceans

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Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global Internet communications, raising concerns among some American military and intelligence officials that the Russians might be planning to attack those lines in times of tension or conflict.

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Shark Proof Google Cable To Link US And Brazil

The 64 terabit per second undersea pipe will be protected from shark attacks and bridge the digital divide in Latin America.

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Severed cables disrupt internet
Saudi Arabian men browse the internet
Internet outages have hit businesses and home use
Internet services have been disrupted in large parts of the Middle East and India following damage to two undersea cables in the Mediterranean.

There was disruption to 70% of the nationwide network in Egypt, and India suffered up to 60% disruption

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Sharks wage war on undersea internet cables

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Entire country taken offline for two days after undersea internet cable cut

Ten countries affected by outages after submarine cable system is damaged



An entire country was left without internet access for two days after an undersea cable was damaged.

Mauritania was left offline for 48 hours after the African Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable was severed, according to infrastructure analysts. Nine other west African nations were affected by outages.

The cable system stretches 10,500 miles (17,000 kilometres) from France to South Africa, helping to provide internet connection to 22 countries – mostly on Africa’s west coast.

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The 2008 submarine cable disruptions were three separate incidents of major damage to submarine optical communication cables around the world. The first incident caused damage involving up to five high-speed Internet submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East from 23 January to 4 February 2008, causing internet disruptions and slowdowns for users in the Middle East and India.[1] The incident called into doubt the safety of the undersea portion of the Internet cable system.[2]

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Fiber optic cables: How they work

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Bill uses a bucket of propylene glycol to show how a fiber optic cable works and how engineers send signal across oceans. More info at [link to www.engineerguy.com.]

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Most people probably don’t know that 99 percent of all transoceanic data traffic goes through undersea cables,

The professor knew it when a cabel washed up on gilligans island.

Google reinforces undersea cables after shark bites

Sharks have been biting down on fibre optic cables under the Pacific, possibly confused by electrical signals that resemble fish

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Animated map the world's undersea internet cables

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The internet’s largest and most important — and yet unsung — champions are the privately-owned submarine cables that orbit the Earth. Terra firma links between cities and cables that run alongside roads and into houses and officers are certainly impressive — and without them we wouldn’t have an internet!

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Submarine Cable System History

150 Year History of Submarine Cables
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