The world is becoming a more connected place, and we have subsea cables to thank for that. Any time you connect with other parts of the world over the internet—whether it’s to communicate with loved ones, shop from a favorite brand or stream global events like the Olympics—that data traffic almost certainly crosses subsea cables to reach you. In fact, you may even have accessed this very blog post via subsea cables. The way these cables move data across vast oceans in mere milliseconds is an engineering marvel, but it wouldn’t count for much without a way to reliably get…

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