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    An Ocean of Opportunity for Submarine SMART Cables

    • RBRebecca Bosco
    10 min read2,342 words

    ICT Today — October/November/December 2024 (Vol. 45, No. 4) · p. 6

    • Data Centers
    • Network Infrastructure

    Hidden far beneath the waves of the world's oceans lies a crucial component of the Internet's infrastructure: submarine cable networks. These massive cables are a marvel of human ingenuity that span the greatest geographical obstacles on our planet to link people and devices for instantaneous communication. Yet, these underwater networks may hold the potential to fulfill outsized roles beyond their primary function of transmitting terabytes of data per second.

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