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Map: The World’s Network of Submarine Cables

Aug 29, 2017 | 09:00 GMT

The world’s vast network of fiber optic cables does most of the heavy lifting in keeping our information flowing from place to place.

Workers install an electric submarine cable and optical fiber between Quiberon and Belle-Ile-en-mer in western France.

(JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD/AFP/Getty Images)

Submarine cables are decidedly uncool. But while they lack the flashiness of satellites, it's actually the world’s vast network of fiber optic cables that does most of the heavy lifting in keeping our information flowing from place to place....

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