Interesting article about the internet connection from NY to UK
The actual cable itself isn't much wider than a garden hose. But flashing through the eight fibre-optic lines bundled inside its narrow confines, each just the width of a single human hair, is enough bandwidth for 20 million people. Every second, 3.2 terabits of data can fire down the cable, each single piece taking 0.00072 seconds to complete the 7,600-mile return journey from here to the US.
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