Communication > Submarine Cables
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Data Source: NOAA Science On a Sphere > Undersea Communication Cables
Website: https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/undersea-communication-cables/
Description: Shows undersea communication cables: cables laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried telegraphy traffic, establishing the first instant telecommunications links between continents, such as the first transatlantic telegraph cable which became operational on 16 August 1858. Subsequent generations of cables carried telephone traffic, then data communications traffic. Modern cables use optical fiber technology to carry digital data, which includes telephone, Internet and private data traffic.
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