Click Here 77. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The internet is at the bottom of the sea’ from Things That Go Boom
Jul 25, 2023
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Undersea Threads Connect the World
- Maro Bay in California hosts a key underwater internet cable landing station.
- Internet traffic from the US travels undersea to places like New Zealand through these cables.
Cables Beat Satellites for Speed
- Over 99% of trans-oceanic internet traffic travels via underwater fiber optic cables.
- Satellites serve mainly areas without cable connectivity due to signal efficiency.
First Global Cable Fueled Globalization
- Cyrus Field led the first transatlantic telegraph cable project in the 1850s.
- Despite repeated failures, it finally enabled near-instant global communication.