Neowin News Feed for: Undersea

Google to lay a new subsea cable connecting the US, UK and Spain

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:28:01 +0000

A new subsea cable called Grace Hopper has been announced by Google Cloud. The submarine cable is set to link up the US, UK and Spain and is scheduled to launch operations in 2022. Read more...

A drop in the ocean: Microsoft's undersea data centre

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 02:32:01 +0000

Microsoft is forging ahead with Project Natick in a bid to create a self-sustaining undersea data centre capable of working on its own for five years by dropping one off the coast of Scotland. Read more...

Undersea cables 1901 vs. 2008

Brad Sams — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:47:04 +0000

Cables are what make all of our connections possible; everything from your internet to you TV is possible thanks to cables that span the globe. Cable lines, or in those days, phone lines... Read more...

3 of 5 broken undersea cables to be repaired by Sunday

Simon Andrews — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:23:01 +0000

Three of the five undersea cables that were severely damaged and caused disruptions across the middle east will be repaired by Sunday, one of them being repaired by Saturday, according to authorities currently dealing with... Read more...

Fourth Undersea Cable Cut

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:45:07 +0000

Internet services in Qatar have been seriously disrupted because of damage to an undersea telecoms cable linking the Gulf state to the UAE, the fourth such incident in less than a week. Qatar Telecom (Qtel)... Read more...

Third undersea cable cut in Middle East

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:36:48 +0000

A third undersea cable was cut on Friday, just two days after two breaks near Egypt disrupted Web access in parts of the Middle East and Asia, Indian-owned cable network operator FLAG Telecom said. FLAG,... Read more...

Damaged undersea cable blamed for UK Net problems

Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:24:15 +0000

A damaged undersea transatlantic cable is being blamed for causing havoc for Net and phone users in the UK last night. A number of ISPs are understood to have been hit by the problem, which... Read more...

Undersea data network planned off Calif. coast

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:01:19 +0000

THE TECH INDUSTRY is taking a dive, and not just in the stock market. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced this week that it has awarded grants to build an underwater data network off the... Read more...

Asia-US undersea cables to be fixed in a week.

Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:19:18 +0000

The two impaired undersea cables, which slowed Internet traffic from Asia to the US to a crawl last Thursday, are expected to be fully repaired next week. Two Japanese repair boats arrived at the... Read more...