undersea cable
Submarine data conduit
An undersea cable is a cable laid on the ocean floor, typically for telecommunications or electrical power transmission.
Most international internet traffic travels through fiber-optic undersea cables connecting continents: The undersea cable between Europe and North America handles billions of messages daily.
Also called submarine cable.
- submarineUnderwater naval craft
- fiber opticLight-based data transmission
- ocean floorUnderwater continental surface
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
- telecommunicationsRemote signal transmission technology
deep sea · deep dive · bandwidth · internet · data · laying · trench · anchor · shark bite · signal · transmission · splice · repeater · continental shelf · saltwater · marine life · pressure · darkness
- networksnetwork traffic, network security, MAN, PAN, cloud computing
- telecommunicationscell phone, cellphone, signals, cellular network, telephone calls
- Global Communicationsatellite, telegraph, telephone, radio waves, internet
- telegraphytelegraph, Morse code, telegraphy, telegraph key, telegraph line
- wired telecomlandline, telephone, telephone line, phone line, phone cord
- fiber opticsoptical fiber, fiber optics, cladding, splice, optical fibre
undersea cablesatellite
Orbiting celestial body
communications satellite · Starlink · overhead line · underground cable · land line
undersea cablesatellite link
Communication via orbiting relay
satellite · communications satellite · wireless transmission · radio link · radio transmission
under, cable, undersea, seabed, seafloor, seawater, seaward, seashore, seaside