Computer science Professor Paul Barford and a team of researchers published the first publicly available map of the US's long-haul fiber-optic cable network. It took the team nearly four years to ...

Since the 1850s, we've been laying cables across oceans to become better connected. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optic cables constantly transmitting data between nations.

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