fiber optic cable

Example Sentences

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Will he bow to US pressure to nix a project to link China and Chile across the Pacific via an undersea fiber optic cable?

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

The boat occupants were contractors working on an underwater fiber optic cable.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

The vessel drifted for four hours with a 2.5-ton anchor at the end of a 590-foot chain, amid icebergs and near an underwater fiber optic cable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

Microcavities are built from incredibly small mirrors fashioned right on top of a fiber optic cable.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

Earlier this month, about 20,000 Alaskans along the northern and western coasts lost their internet when ice scouring the floor of the Beaufort Sea cut a fiber optic cable.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023