Ninety-nine percent of international internet traffic flows through cables stretched across the ocean floor. Demand for these cables is at an all-time high as the world becomes more dependent on cloud computing and AI. But there’s only one company in America that’s capable of both making and laying them. <\/p>\n
We visited its 73-year-old factory and went onboard a multimillion-dollar cable-laying ship to see how the company is keeping up and why our data still needs to travel thousands of feet under the sea.<\/p>\n
00:00 – Intro
\n01:08 – How Subsea Cables Work
\n02:02 – How Cables Are Made
\n04:59 – The History of Subsea Cables
\n07:00 – Big Tech Takeover
\n08:22 – Onboard the Cable Ship
\n10:14 – How Cable Is Laid
\n10:52 – Geopolitical Tensions
\n12:40 – Cable Breaks
\n14:26 – Cable Sabotage
\n14:09 – Satellites
\n14:43 – Credits<\/p>\n
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\n#internetcable #cablelaying #subseaengineering #cables #bigbusiness <\/p>\n
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