The First Attempts to Lay the Transatlantic Cable (1857-1858): The first attempts to lay the transatlantic cable from Ireland to Newfoundland were fraught with bad luck and repeated setbacks. Even ...

Heart’s Content, Newfoundland (WHTM) After a 14 day voyage across the Atlantic, The S.S. Great Eastern, the largest ship in the world, arrived in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. On board, a very precious ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today that it has signed a contract to provide a 40 Gbps dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) capacity upgrade ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hibernia Networks, a leading provider of high speed global telecommunications services, announces that Hibernia Express, its new 4,600km ultra low latency submarine cable ...

Exa Infrastructure kicked off the new year by acquiring subsea firm Aqua Comms. The deal, completed almost a year after an ...

Microsoft on Friday announced completion of the Marea undersea cable, which stretches 4,400 miles between Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Bilbao, Spain. A joint project of Microsoft, Facebook and global ...

A giant subsea cable running from Virginia Beach to Bilbao, Spain has been completed in a joint effort by Microsoft, Facebook and a telecoms infrastructure company called Telxius. The massive project ...

The highest-capacity data cable stretching across the Atlantic has now been completed. A consortium including Microsoft, Facebook and Telxius recently finished threading the complex 4,000-mi (6,400-km ...

On January 8, 1815 a British fleet attacked New Orleans, Louisiana. It was intended to be the final battle of the War of 1812. The British aimed to block the strategic mouth of the Mississippi, taking ...

In 1839, a couple of inventors, William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone unveiled to the world their telegraph and It wasn't long before the idea of constructing an underwater telegraph cable that would ...

In this hyper-modern, satellite-powered wireless age, it’s easy to forget how not too long ago our main connection to Europe was a single cable: the TAT-1. This, the first submarine transatlantic ...

Microsoft and Facebook have finished laying their massive Marea Internet cable across the Atlantic Ocean, the companies announced Thursday. Running from Virginia Beach, Virginia, to Bilbao, Spain, the ...