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Google's Subsea Fiber Optics

Fiber optic networks are a foundation of the modern internet. In fact, subsea cables carry 99% of international network traffic , and yet we are barely aware that they exist. What you might not know is that the first subsea cable was deployed in 1858 for telegraph messages between Europe and North America. A message…