submarine cable
Ocean floor conduit
A submarine cable is a cable laid on the ocean floor, typically for telecommunications or electrical power transmission.
The term usually refers to fiber-optic lines carrying internet traffic between continents: Nearly all intercontinental data travels through submarine cables.
These cables form the backbone of global communications infrastructure.
- underseaBeneath ocean surface
- fiber opticLight-based data transmission
- dark fiberInactive optical cable
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
- ocean floorUnderwater continental surface
telecommunications · bandwidth · deep sea · internet · data · seabed · connection · telegraph · message in a bottle · nautical · trenching · signal · network · continental shelf · fault zone · repeater · repair ship · shark bite
- telecommunicationscell phone, cellphone, signals, cellular network, telephone calls
- major projectsmoon landing, space program, skyscraper, dam, canal
- telegraphytelegraph, Morse code, telegraphy, telegraph key, telegraph line
- communication infrastructurephone lines, fiber optics, ethernet, antenna, satellite link
- Undersea Techsubmersible, ROV, underwater drone, underwater robot, bathyscaphe
- fiber opticsoptical fiber, fiber optics, cladding, splice, optical fibre
submarine cablesatellite transmission
Signal relayed through orbit
satellite link · wireless transmission · satellite communication · radio transmission · cellular network
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