IoT gadgets like smartwatches, home automation, health-related wearables, and 3D printers are becoming popular. With the expanding popularity of cloud-connected devices, it’s simple to observe how the average internet user has 3 mobile devices linked at any given time. By 2022, it is expected...
If you've ever emailed a resort in Fiji or Vanuatu about that long-awaited holiday, it's likely your email traveled through an undersea internet cable. Such cables carry much of the internet traffic around the globe, in conjunction with underground fiber connections, satellites and microwave link...
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your idea is, it doesn't matter how smart or important you are. If the idea doesn't agree with reality, it's wrong", Richard Feynman (paraphrased)
whose use cases range from simple file transfers between two computers in an office to complex telecommunications links that connect continents via undersea cables. This simplicity, however, also limits the connection to interactions solely between the two connected entities, making it unsuitable for sce...
The recent arrest of three men diving near a damaged undersea fiber optic cable off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt and damage to another nearby cable a week earlier led to a flurry of speculation that the network of cables carrying the bulk of the world's internet traffic could be at risk...
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The acronym WAN is sometimes erroneously used to describe a wireless area network, though it's most often abbreviated asWLAN. How WANs Are Connected Since WANs, by definition, cover a larger distance than LANs, it makes sense to connect the various parts of the WAN using a virtual private ...
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“Most people are absolutely amazed” by the degree to which the internet is still cable-based, said Byron Clatterbuck, chief executive of Seacom, a multinational telecommunications firm responsible for laying many of the undersea cables connecting Africa to the rest of the world. ...
Under the Baltic Sea, there are dozens of vulnerable internet and power cables, laid mostly unprotected on the seabed. According to Rutte, more than 95% of internet traffic globally is carried via undersea cables, with some 1.3 million kilometers of such cabling securing an estimated $10 trilli...