cables
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The underwater drone, tethered to the ship with cables and about the size of a small car, was just above the ocean floor as the researchers and pilots searched for furrows potentially left by whales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Sundararajan says 16 agencies across telecoms, defence, home affairs, shipping, ports, environment and state authorities are involved in clearing the construction, operation and repair of subsea cables.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The location of these large, windowless buildings filled with beeping servers and cables also became important to latency – the time it takes for data to travel from its source to its destination.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The firm specializes in copper cables used to connect AI servers to networking switches.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Battlefield commanders depended on telephones to gather information and issue orders, yet telephone cables were easily broken during combat.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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