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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laying an undersea fiber-optic cable at Arrietara beach near the Spanish village of Sopelana. Ander Gillenea/AFP via Getty Images ...

The International Summit on Submarine Cable Resilience brings together stakeholders to help safeguard the digital communications backbone.

In late 2024, two critical undersea internet cables linking Finland to Germany and Lithuania to Sweden failed almost simultaneously, cutting key data routes across Northern Europe. Officials initially ...

Crew transfer fiber onto a vessel bound for Northwest Alaska in 2023. (GCI) After more than two years of planning, branching underwater internet cables have reached their resting place on the seafloor ...

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In the early days of the pandemic, I began pondering the idea of healing. I stumbled upon a story about a cable repair vessel, the Leon Thevenin, which had attended to a cable break off the west coast ...

(CNN) — Two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea have been suddenly disrupted, according to local telecommunications companies, amid fresh warnings of possible Russian interference with global ...

When a Taiwanese telecoms company detected that an international undersea cable was damaged earlier this month, it worked to divert internet traffic from the broken line to keep customers on the ...