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Scientists use fiber-optic cables to measure ice loss in Antarctic

Fiber-optic cables like the ones that bring television and Internet into millions of homes are now being used to measure how fast ice shelves in Antarctica are melting, according to new research. Researchers installed moorings containing fiber-optic cables hundreds of...

Microsoft, Facebook, Complete Enormous Undersea Cable

Microsoft, Facebook and global telecommunication infrastructure company Telxius have completed the Marea subsea cable, the world's most technologically advanced undersea cable. The Marea crosses the Atlantic Ocean over 17,000 feet below the ocean's surface, connecting...

How Google is building the fastest internet cable to cross the Atlantic

Data flows under the oceans. To get from the US to Europe, for example, internet traffic doesn't beam by satellite—it rushes through subsea cables. There are about 378 of these pipes, and the information that travels through them does so on glass fiber. While many of...

City builds open-access broadband network with Google Fiber as its first ISP

Google Fiber's wireline broadband is expanding to a new city for the first time in several years as part of a public-private partnership to build an open-access network that any ISP can use to offer service. The new network will be in West Des Moines, Iowa. Google...

Microsoft, Facebook, Complete Enormous Undersea Cable

Nov 11, 2020

Microsoft, Facebook and global telecommunication infrastructure company Telxius have completed the Marea subsea cable, the world's most technologically advanced undersea cable. The Marea crosses the Atlantic Ocean over 17,000 feet below the ocean's surface, connecting...

City builds open-access broadband network with Google Fiber as its first ISP

Nov 10, 2020

Google Fiber's wireline broadband is expanding to a new city for the first time in several years as part of a public-private partnership to build an open-access network that any ISP can use to offer service. The new network will be in West Des Moines, Iowa. Google...