Imagine that the wires to your house not only have to withstand high electrical current flow, weather and wind, but also salt water, ocean currents, temperature changes and large movements. This is ...

In Grover Beach, construction crews are installing steel conduits in the ocean to hold subsea fiber optic cables. “Ninety-five percent of all telecommunications traffic happens on a fiber optic cable, ...

Norwegian subsea contractor Ocean Installer has started cable installation work at the Liuhua 16-2 field in the South China Sea after the pipelay vessel Connector arrived in the area a week ago. The ...

Laced across the cold depths of the world's oceans is a network of multimillion-dollar cables, which have become the vital connections of our online lives. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Amazon’s plans to install an undersea fiber-optic cable off the Tillamook County coast gained approval from state leaders last week, though with some reluctance. During a state land board meeting on ...

Makai Ocean Engineering has released the Makai Simulator, a training tool that enables submarine cable installers to prepare MakaiLay operators in a safe, realistic, and cost-effective way, entirely ...

Great news!  North Sea Boulevard on Maasvlakte reopens after successful installation of TenneT's offshore wind cables. It's a big step toward sustainable energy and reducing CO₂ emissions in the ...

Earlier this year, a giant cable was laid between Japan and the United States to deliver 60 terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth under the Pacific. While we reported on some of the cable's ...

Boskalis announces that it has been awarded an inter-array cable installation contract by Ørsted for the German Borkum Riffgrund 3 and Gode Wind 3 offshore wind farms. The contract includes the ...