Alaska Public Media

Ship en route to repair Sitka's damaged fiber optic cable

The cable ship Cable Innovator docked in Port Angeles, Wash. in May 2022 (Creative Commons/DeVos Max) A British-flagged cable-laying ship is sailing from Canada to Southeast Alaska to repair a damaged ...

The world's first transatlantic fiber cable is being pulled off the ocean floor

TAT-8 was the eighth Trans-Atlantic Telephone system and the first to replace copper transmission with single-mode optical fiber between the United States, the United Kingdom, and ...
Alaska Public Media

It could take nearly 2 weeks to repair a broken fiber optic cable that has caused widespread outages in Sitka

Trollers await the July 1 opening of the king salmon season in Sitka’s Crescent Harbor. The commercial season for king salmon in Southeast Alaska opens on Saturday, July 1, 2023. (Berett Wilber/KCAW) ...
MarineLink

Orange Marine Orders Two More Cable Laying and Repair Vessels from Vard

Norwegian ship designer and builder VARD has secured on order from France’s Orange Marine for two additional cable laying and ...
Business Insider

A guide to fiber optics, and how fiber-optic networks are improving data transfer

Fiber-optic services are becoming more popular, and networks are expanding to cover more areas for faster data transfer speeds. Fiber-optic data transfer differs from traditional methods like ...