Carlsbad hub proposed for undersea data cable between U.S. and Australia

Carlsbad hub proposed for undersea data cable between U.S. and Australia

A group of technology companies has applied for permits to build a hub near the beach in Carlsbad that would connect the United States with New Zealand and Australia via fiber-optic cables stretching more than 7,000 miles under the sea. Submarine cables carry huge streams of data such as video, telephone calls and virtually anything on the internet at close to the speed of light. They have many times the bandwidth of satellites, and carry more t…