The Story of the First Transatlantic Cable (Throughline+)

Throughline producers Lawrence Wu and Devin Katayama discuss the discoveries and delights of making our episode about the ...

Russian ship loitering near transatlantic data cables chased off by Royal Navy attack helicopter — sat within three quarters of a mile of five undersea data cables, includi…

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The Baltimore Sun

Amazon eyes Ocean City for transatlantic fiber optic cable landing

Ocean City officials are in talks with online retail giant Amazon about bringing the first transatlantic data cable to Maryland, with a U.S. landing point proposed at the Ocean City Municipal Airport, ...
The Herald News

Google asks FCC permission to lay transatlantic subsea cable to link U.S. to Portugal

WASHINGTON - Google has applied to the US regulator for a license to build a 6,900-kilometer submarine fiber-optic cable, which will be anchored in the Azores and Sines, claiming it will be the first ...
Hosted on MSN

Submarine cable security is all at sea, and UK govt 'too timid' to act, says report

Guess how much of our direct transatlantic data capacity runs through two cables in Bude? Feature The first transatlantic cable, laid in 1858, delivered a little over 700 messages before promptly ...
WESA

Roots of internet infrastructure are under the ocean -- and date to the mid-1800s

What powers the global internet? The answer might surprise you. It's not satellites, but hundreds of thin cables that run along the ocean floor. The roots of this crucial and often fragile oceanic ...
TweakTown

Amazon's new transatlantic cable can stream over 12.5 HD million movies at once

TL;DR: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching Fastnet, a transatlantic subsea fiber optic cable connecting the U.S. East Coast to Ireland by 2028. Designed for 320 Tbps speeds, it supports growing ...