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.

It is estimated that more than 95% of the world’s intercontinental information ... Within those cables there are tiny strands of fiber optic material, the width of an eyelash.

Subsea cables are massive fiber-optic cables laid on the seabed ... delivering 99% of the world's intercontinental data traffic. "Undersea cables are part of critical national infrastructure ...

These fiber-optic cables transmit internet data through tiny beams of light, making it possible for us to be online. They run under oceans and across deserts. It is the largest network humans have ...