What Happens When Undersea Internet Cables Snap?

new video loaded: What Happens When Undersea Internet Cables Snap? The internet is made up of hundreds of cables crossing the floors and the canyons of the earth’s oceans. So what happens when ... Read More

Finland boards oil tanker suspected of causing internet, power cable outages

Finnish police said on Thursday they are investigating whether a foreign ship was involved in the damage of an undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia following a sudden outage on ... Read More

Undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia experiences outage — capacity reduced to 35% as Finnish authorities investigate

An undersea power cable connecting Helsinki and Tallinn, carrying 658 megawatts of electricity, has been disrupted on Christmas Day. Read More

Undersea Surgeons

Something was wrong in the vast undersea canyon known as the Bottomless Hole. One by one, internet cables were failing on a seabed so deep that no human has ever set foot on it. And as they did ... Read More

Estonian government to meet as investigators probe interruption of undersea cable

Estonia’s prime minister says his government will hold an extraordinary meeting later as investigators try to find out what disrupted a Baltic Sea power cable bringing electricity from Finland ... Read More

Undersea cable cuts in the Baltic Sea are stoking geopolitical tensions — here's what's going on

Subsea cables — massive fiber-optic cables laid on the seabed — are the backbone of the global internet ... up for NBC DFW's News Headlines newsletter. Last week, two undersea cables ... Read More

Meta plans to build $10B globe-spanning undersea internet cable: report

Social media giant Meta plans to lay down its own private undersea fiber optic internet cable that will extend around the world, according to a new report. Early next year, Meta — the parent ... Read More

Germany suspects sabotage after undersea internet cables are severed

BERLIN – Germany’s defense minister said the cutting of two undersea internet cables appeared ... Get breaking news delivered to your inbox as it happens. Read More

Undersea cable cuts in the Baltic Sea are stoking geopolitical tensions — here's what's going on

They are the backbone of the global internet, delivering 99% of the world's intercontinental data traffic. "Undersea cables are part of critical national infrastructure carrying telecommunications ... Read More