In Grover Beach, construction crews are installing steel conduits in the ocean to hold subsea fiber optic cables. “Ninety-five percent of all telecommunications traffic happens on a fiber optic cable, ...

Steve Brock, Ocean Networks Hawaii project manager, is pictured here talking to a crowd at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center during a presentation on the Hawaiian Islands Fiber Link project Tuesday ...

Once a month or so, I have the privilege of sitting down with Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams to record the Hackaday Podcast. It’s a lot of fun spending a couple of hours geeking out together, and we ...

Amazon’s plans to install an undersea fiber-optic cable off the Tillamook County coast gained approval from state leaders last week, though with some reluctance. During a state land board meeting on ...

Off the coast of Portugal, an internet cable has rested for nearly 30 years. In 1988, when it was initially installed, the TAT-8 was the very first undersea fiber optic cable. While thoroughly ...

New Delhi: Internet is an inseparable part of life in this modern world. Social media access, YouTube and OTT platforms, video calls, online shopping and office work, all rely on a constant digital ...

Laced across the cold depths of the world's oceans is a network of multimillion-dollar cables, which have become the vital connections of our online lives. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

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 ...

Workers haul part of a fibre optic cable onto the shore at the Kenyan port town of Mombasa. Stringer/AFP via Getty Images Jess Auerbach Jahajeeah, an associate professor at the University of Cape Town ...

Thousands of miles of fiber optic cable lying at the bottom of the world’s oceans carry more than 95% of the world’s data, from phone calls and emails to encrypted military secrets. Now, those ...