Global Undersea Internet Cable System

FastTrax

FastTrax

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Tish said:
Wow That is amazing!
And here I thought it would all be Satelite by now.
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Forgive me for sounding argumentative, but it's not so amazing, it's all been done before.

"Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean and used for telegraph communications. Telegraphy is now an obsolete form of communication and the cables have long since been decommissioned, but telephone and data are still carried on other transatlantic cables. The first cable was laid in the 1850's across the floor of the Atlantic from Valentia in Western Ireland to Bay of Bulls, Trinity Bay Newfoundland. The first communications occurred August 16, 1858 but the line speed was poor and efforts to improve it caused this cable to fail after three weeks.

Cyrus West Fields and the Atlantic Telegraph Company were behind the construction of the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The project began in 1854 and was completed in 1858. The cable functioned for only three weeks, but it was the first such project to yield practical results. The first official telegram to pass between two continents was a letter of congratulations from Queen Victoria to US President, James Buchanan on August 16th, 1858.
 
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