Most of the world's data travels via ocean cables, which are at risk of frequent sabotage. DW explains where they lie and how they are protected.

A spate of sabotage attacks on underwater cables, allegedly perpetrated by a Russian "shadow fleet", have shown global telecommunications infrastructure is poorly protected against deliberate acts of ...

The majority of critical undersea infrastructure is located in international waters, which means would-be saboteurs can take ...

NATO is deploying eyes in the sky and on the Baltic Sea to protect cables and pipelines that stitch together the nine countries with shores on Baltic waters.

LONDON—For around a decade, the Russian spy ship Yantar has crossed the globe and loitered over undersea cables in what ...

The United Kingdom has confirmed that one of its Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarines surfaced close to the Yantar, a ...

Taiwan's authorities reported that submarine cables connecting Taiwan to its Matsu Islands, which are home to about 14,000 ...

Fiber optic network provider Mox will join the Topaz subsea cable. The carrier has acquired spectrum from ... Ian Clarke, director of global submarine networking at Google added: “By offering fiber ...

India's data transmission capacity is set to increase fourfold by 2025 with new submarine cables connecting key global markets, according to Trai Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti. The Indian digital economy ...

In February 2023, the 14,000 residents in Taiwan’s outlying Matsu islands were knocked offline for several weeks, when the only two submarine cables connecting them to the main island were ...

The world’s largest submarine cable, the Africa-2 Cable Project, has arrived in Pakistan. Minister of State for IT Shaza Fatima shared this development in the National Assembly on Monday while ...