Surprisingly enough, about 99% of all intercontinental Internet traffic goes through submarine cables and about 1.5 million kilometers of underwater fiber optic cables are laid on the bottom of the Earth’s oceans.

It is on these cables that not only the future of the global Internet and the modern information age depends, but also the daily transactions of trillions of dollars.

Global telecommunications history began 150 years ago, in 1850, with the first commercial international submarine cable between England and France. In 1858, the first transatlantic telegraph cable connected London to North America and transmitted 143 words in 10 hours.