Against that backdrop, Japan launched a “Study Group on the Protection of International Submarine Cables” in November 2025.

JAKARTA, 3 June (BelTA - ANTARA) - The Indonesian government plans to develop submarine optical cable-based technology to improve the accuracy and coverage of the national tsunami early warning system ...

TOKYO, Sept 28, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - - NEC Corporation has successfully completed a long-distance field trial of an optical submarine cable system using a new transponder that, according to NEC ...

Tokyo, Japan & New Delhi, India, Jan 12, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - - NEC Corporation India (NEC India) together with NEC Corporation today announced the successful completion of a flagship optical ...

Burying the cable in shallow water is a traditional way to protect it from things like anchors, fishing gear and shifting ...

The global internet is connected by roughly 570 fiber optic cables on the seabed. Recent breaks have industry watchers questioning the resiliency and security of these subsea cables. In late 2024 and ...

New Delhi: Internet is an inseparable part of life in this modern world. Social media access, YouTube and OTT platforms, video calls, online shopping and office work, all rely on a constant digital ...

As threats to underwater internet cable connections continue to increase, Finland has a plan for keeping its internet ...

A new high-capacity international submarine cable system — the Asia Link Cable, or ALC — successfully landed in Hong Kong on Thursday, marking a major milestone for the project's anticipated full ...

Daniel Orange, Ph.D., Kara Scheu, Ph.D. Geophysical hazards, such as undersea earthquakes, landslides, and sediment flows (or turbidity currents), pose significant risk to submarine cables. Submarine ...

The bottom of the sea is a mysterious and inaccessible place, and anything unfortunate enough to slip beneath the waves and into the briny depths might as well be on the Moon. But the bottom of the ...

NEC and NTT have conducted a first-of-its-kind transoceanic-class 7,280km transmission experiment using coupled multicore fibre. The two Japanese firms expect the work they have been carrying out will ...