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Grace Hopper is a private transatlantic communications cable that connects the United States of America with the UK and Spain . It was announced by Google in 2020 and scheduled to go live in 2022. [1] The US to UK (Bude) leg went live on 27 September 2022. [2] [3]
Submarine cables, while often perceived as ‘insignificant’ parts of communication infrastructure as they lay “hidden” in the seabed, [80] [81] are an essential infrastructure in the digital era, carrying 99% of the data traffic across the oceans. [82] This data includes all internet traffic, military transmissions, and financial ...
The International Cable Protection Committee — at ISCPC.org, includes a register of submarine cables worldwide (though not always updated as often as one might hope) United Kingdom Cable Protection Committee — at UKCPC.org.uk; Kingfisher Information Service — at KISCA.org.uk, source of free maps of cable routes around the United Kingdom ...
Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) is a 28,000-kilometre-long (17,398 mi; 15,119 nmi) fibre optic mostly-submarine communications cable that connects the United Kingdom, Japan, India, and many places in between.
In 2023, Taiwanese authorities blamed two Chinese ships for damaging two submarine internet cables linked to Taiwan’s outlying island of Matsu in incidents days apart causing an internet ...
Finally, States have the obligation of making damages to submarine internet cables a punishable offence (article 113), except if it is unavoidable with lives or ships at stake. [6] With the growing discussions following climate change and environmental issue, submarine cables' sustainable protection ought to be a priority.
South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 6 (SEA-ME-WE 6) is an in-progress optical fibre submarine communications cable system that would carry telecommunications between Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe.
The cable is wholly owned by Lumen (formerly Level 3 Communications) in the US following its acquisition of Global Crossing. [1] The original owners, which each owned two of the fibre pairs, gave this cable system different names, so it is known as both Yellow (after the Beatles song Yellow Submarine) and AC-2. It has a capacity of 320 Gbit/s ...