What happens when an undersea internet cable breaks?

What happens when an undersea internet cable breaks? Most of the world’s international internet traffic travels through physical fiber-optic cables running across the ocean floor. And despite how important they are, these cables break more often than you might think. In this episode of Take Rate Research, we explain what happens after an undersea internet cable is damaged — from detecting the fault and rerouting internet traffic to dispatching specialized repair ships, recovering the cable from the seabed, and splicing it back together. We also look at why most people never notice when a cable fails, what fishing equipment and ship anchors have to do with cable breaks, and why some parts of the world are much more vulnerable to an outage than others. The internet may feel wireless, but much of the global network depends on infrastructure sitting thousands of miles beneath the ocean. Subscribe to Take Rate Research for more short explainers about the hidden systems behind everyday life. #UnderseaCable #Internet #Technology #Infrastructure #HowItWorks