Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe with barely a hint of delay? Behind ...

Nearly all international internet traffic voyages along a handful of submarine fibre-optic cable highways. They make ...

Beneath the mighty oceans across the world lie hidden something just as mighty: The submarine cables that have been carrying ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Few parts of the Earth remain unconnected. By this, I mean that fewer and fewer corners of ...

The backbone of the internet is formed by a dense network of fibre- optic cables, each of which transports up to more than 100 terabits of data per second (1 terabit = 1012 digital 1/0 signals) ...

What’s one piece of infrastructure that — more than anything else — forms the backbone of the modern world? It’s not roads, bridges or even 5G towers — it’s the internet cables that sit on the sea ...

Japan, South Korea, and the island of Taiwan are connected to the US with large data cables running across the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. But tensions between China and the US may put these data ...

In a world where the internet powers everything from banking to healthcare, education, security, and even our social lives, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robin Chataut, Quinnipiac University (THE CONVERSATION) Have you ever wondered how an ...