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, we’ve been laying cables across oceans to become better connected.
Today, there are hundreds of thousands of kilometres of fibre optic cables constantly transmitting data between nations.
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