Undersea cables carry hundreds of terabits of international data per second, including government communications, financial transactions, email, video calls and streaming. Investment into new subsea ...

Over the past year, the ability and importance to protect undersea internet cables has increased significantly following heightened threats of sabotage from hostile nation-states – in particular, the ...

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 ...

Subsea cables are vital to transmitting data and connecting international markets. Over 95 percent of data, and $10 trillion in daily financial transactions, travels globally across 1.5 million ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced plans to build a subsea internet cable that will stretch from Maryland to County Cork, Ireland. The cable, which is called Fastnet, is currently in the design ...

A high-stakes rivalry is playing out over a vast but vulnerable web of underwater cables that carry nearly all global internet traffic It was a February night off Taiwan’s southwest coast when cargo ...

Ireland’s unique strategic position—linking transnational telecommunications cables between the United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe—makes it a key player in safeguarding subsea ...

On Feb. 10 last year, the cable ship CS Dependable appeared off the coast of the island of Diego Garcia, an Indian Ocean atoll that’s home to a discreet U.S. naval base. Over the next month, the ...