deep-sea cables
Ocean-floor data conduits
Deep-sea cables are telecommunications lines laid on the ocean floor, carrying the vast majority of international internet and phone traffic between continents.
Despite the wireless age, these fiber-optic cables form the physical backbone of global communication: A severed deep-sea cable disrupted internet service across the region.
Also called submarine cables.
- power cablesWires that transmit electricity
- bandwidthData transmission capacity
- fiber opticsLight-carrying cable technology
- dark fiberInactive optical cable
- conductorOne who directs musicians
telegraph · transmission · latency · sharks · sea creatures · splicing · corrosion resistance · grapnel · offshore wind farms · global connectivity · undersea · electricity · transatlantic · Atlantic crossing · lines · insulation · electrical insulation · fathoms
- submarine cablesundersea cables, transatlantic cables, internet cables, terminal station, landing point
deep-sea cablessatellite communication
Transmission via orbiting relay
satellite links · wireless transmission · radio transmission · satellite internet · cellular networks