When Meta announced its plans for a vast new fiber optic network covering 50,000 kilometers and linking five continents last month, the company’s selling point was cutting-edge undersea cable tech.

Google has been backing and constructing undersea, intercontinental fiber optic cables since 2008, helping build a $300 million trans-Pacific subsea cable network connecting Japan to the west ...

Computer science Professor Paul Barford and a team of researchers published the first publicly available map of the US's long-haul fiber-optic cable network. It took the team nearly four years to ...

It is estimated that more than 95% of the world’s intercontinental information travels through underwater cables that are no bigger than the pipes at the back of your toilet. Within those cables there ...