Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe with barely a hint of delay? Behind ...

Few parts of the Earth remain unconnected. By this, I mean that fewer and fewer corners of the globe exist without some sort of internet or digital connectivity. Quality and consistency obviously vary ...

The backbone of the internet is formed by a dense network of fibre- optic cables, each of which transports up to more than 100 terabits of data per second (1 terabit = 1012 digital 1/0 signals) ...

What’s one piece of infrastructure that — more than anything else — forms the backbone of the modern world? It’s not roads, bridges or even 5G towers — it’s the internet cables that sit on the sea ...

The subsea cables that underpin the internet are at risk of Russian attack. The West is seeking to defend the cables, but it's a tough task. NATO has a backup plan — to reroute some data through space ...

Officials say Kenya’s fibre coverage stands at about 62 percent, with plans to push this toward 90 percent, reducing ...

Plans to construct several new fiber-optic internet subsea cables that will improve Hawaii’s internet reliability and connectivity were announced Tuesday by Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke and Benji Robinson, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robin Chataut, Quinnipiac University (THE CONVERSATION) Have you ever wondered how an ...