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With New Fiber Optics Cables, Competition Moves to Seafloor

With New Fiber Optics Cables, Competition Moves to Seafloor

First it was server cooling rooms. Now, new, trans-Arctic telecommunications cables might be the next big thing up north. At this year’s Pacific Telecommunications Council conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, there was much talk about a potential subsea optical transmission cable that could be laid under the Arctic Ocean thanks to the melting ice cap. Network […]

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