As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fibre optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea. Working by headlamp, they ...

Meta has largely kept details about Project Waterworth under wraps, but subsea cable engineer Andy Palmer-Felgate gives us sneak peek at how it will pull off this 'incredible feat.' ...

The International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) welcomes the publication of the first scientific assessment of the environmental considerations associated with the decommissioning of submarine ...

Nearly all international internet traffic voyages along a handful of submarine fibre-optic cable highways. They make ...

An operator works during the mooring of an undersea fiber optic cable at Arrietara beach near the Spanish Basque village of Sopelana on June 13, 2017. Facebook and Microsoft have paired up to run a ...

Chinese researchers have unveiled a new deep-sea tool capable of cutting through the world’s most secure subsea cables − and it has many in the West feeling a little jittery. The development, first ...

The Cameroon-flagged Shunxin39 cargo ship sailing in waters near Taiwan. When a Taiwanese telecoms company detected that an international undersea cable was damaged earlier this month, it worked to ...

The year began with a fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden being damaged by parties unknown. Over the last few years more than a dozen Baltic Sea underwater cables have been damaged or cut.

The submarine cables market was valued at $7.4 billion in 2022, and is estimated to reach $14 billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 6.6% from 2023 to 2032. WILMINGTON ...