Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Special ships lay data cables across the world's oceans. Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images Have you ever wondered how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by developing the Haiwei GD11000, the "world's first machine capable of laying ...

There are now over 500 commercial submarine cables worldwide, and despite being roughly the width of a garden hose, they stretch an astonishing 1.7 million kilometres.

Laced across the cold depths of the world's oceans is a network of multimillion-dollar cables, which have become the vital connections of our online lives. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

The C/S IT Intrepid begins deploying subsea fiber in Unalaska. (Laurelin Kruse/KUCB) Work has started to lay 800 miles of subsea fiber-optic cable that project engineers say will bring high-speed ...

What powers the global internet? The answer might surprise you. It's not satellites, but hundreds of thin cables that run along the ocean floor. The roots of this crucial and often fragile oceanic ...

After a major conversion, Dutch marine services firm Boskalis has commissioned the BOKA Ocean vessel. The vessel was acquired in 2023 as a pipe-laying vessel and was subsequently converted into a ...

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, ...

In our digital world, where every task is just a click away, whether we are video-calling a loved one from across the globe, streaming the latest episode of our favorite series, or conducting ...

India is slowly adding new undersea cable systems that help connect the country to the rest of the world through the internet. The latest addition is the 2Africa Pearls cable system, launched by ...