Given its geography as an island nation, 99 percent of Japan’s communications depend on subsea cables. Perhaps as a natural consequence, Japan is a significant player in the subsea cable industry, ...

The Christmas holiday season is a time to step back from the busy pace of modern life and connect with our nearest and dearest instead of screens, apps and chatbots.

Plus, the safety checks you should do in your home every night AS we leave the house many of us go through a mental checklist that we have everything we need. However, as well as ensuring you have ...

Author Samanth Subramanian described the coming together of his latest book as ‘serendipitous’. The book, The Web Beneath The Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World, published by Columbia ...

There's a lot of drone warfare footage on the internet from Ukraine and Russia. But over the last year, a surprising evolution in the conflict has emerged, via photos from the battlefront posted ...

One of Alaska’s smallest telecommunications companies is about to provide a critical backup for the entire state. On Wednesday, Cordova Telecom Cooperative and GCI announced a partnership to lay an ...

The same optic fibers that pulse with the world’s Internet traffic are now listening to the pulse of the planet, picking up earthquake tremors in better detail than traditional seismic networks do. In ...

Communications cables are only part of the story. A far broader array of systems now covers the ocean floor – and must be protected. But communications cables are only part of the story. A far broader ...

SAN JUAN ISLAND — As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea. Working ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Verizon customers in Los Angeles County reported service outages after vandalism of fiber optic cables, the ...

Many of the world’s largest and most devastating earthquakes strike beneath the ocean, where the lack of sensors makes quick warnings difficult. Most monitoring stations are on land. “If we have a big ...