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Fibre Submarine Cables
TAT-8 (1988), the first transatlantic fibre cable, carries about 40,000 phone calls on glass; almost all intercontinental data still goes this way.
Open in the interactive tree →Light in glass fibres replaced copper cables and satellites for the heavy traffic between continents. The global internet rests on hundreds of undersea cable systems.
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- Cloud Computing2006Global cloud services depend on intercontinental fibre cables for their traffic
Sources
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