Submarine cables: Achilles heel of our digital world
Most of the world's data travels via ocean cables that are at risk of frequent sabotage. DW explains where they lie and how ...
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The Invisible Backbone of the Internet: Nearly A Million Miles of Undersea Cables Keep the World Connected — But What Happens If They Break?
This covering enables the cables to withstand the punishing conditions of the ocean floor. Depending on where the cable is ...
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The Deep-Sea Battle Over the World’s Data Cables Is Heating Up
A Russian spy ship seen in U.K. waters points to continuing worries over the safety of undersea cables that link the global ...
How sabotage on undersea cables affects our digital world
Most of the world's data travels via ocean cables, which are at risk of frequent sabotage. DW explains where they lie and how they are protected.
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NATO tests satellite internet as backup to sabotaged undersea cables
As apparent acts of sabotage cut undersea data cables around the world, NATO held its first demonstration of a project to quickly reroute crucial communications to satellite internet ...
Beaufort Sea ice cuts fiber-optic cable, limiting internet for about 20,000 residents of Northwest Alaska through summer
In January, sea ice severed a fiber-optic cable running along the floor of the Beaufort Sea several miles off the North Slope ...
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How the Red Sea conflict could wreak havoc on the world's internet infrastructure
If the Houthis were to continually strike at internet cables ... to have a workaround for this. While the cables often lie hundreds of feet below the ocean surface, "subsea cables can be cut ...
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Global fiber-optic internet cables map
An curved arrow pointing right. Every time you visit a web page or send an email, data is being sent and received through an intricate cable system that stretches around the globe. Since the 1850s ...