undersea cables
Submarine data conduits
Undersea cables are fiber-optic or electrical cables laid on the ocean floor to transmit data or power between continents.
The vast majority of international internet traffic travels through undersea cables rather than satellites.
They connect distant landmasses and are vulnerable to damage from anchors, earthquakes, and deliberate sabotage: The undersea cable outage disrupted communications across the region.
- fiber opticsLight-carrying cable technology
- broadbandFast internet access
- bandwidthData transmission capacity
- latencyDelay in system response
- trawlersCommercial fishing boats
maritime law · sharks · fault detection · marine ecosystems · corrosion resistance · tensile strength · territorial waters · ocean currents · data packets · international treaties · internet · transatlantic cables · ocean floor · telecommunications · transatlantic · seabed · ocean trenches · signals
- telecommunicationscell phone, cellphone, signals, cellular network, telephone calls
- global networksinternet, telecommunications, satellites, fiber optics, Wi-Fi
- Hidden Systemsunderground pipes, sewers, plumbing, wiring, roots
- connectorscables, connector, connectors, wires, jack
- internet infrastructurebroadband, fiber optics, ISPs, data centers, connectivity
- networkingrouter, routers, LAN, WAN, switches
undersea cablessatellites
Bodies circling larger ones
communication satellites · satellite networks · satellite communication · Starlink · wireless transmission
undersea cableswireless networks
Radio-linked communication systems
radio transmission · satellite communication · broadcast towers · cellular networks · Wi-Fi
undersea cablesland lines
Wired telephone connections
buried cables · underground cables · telephone poles · transcontinental railways · pipelines