In 2022, international submarine cables carried nearly 1 Petabit per second of data – 1,000 Tbps – marking a fivefold rise since 2017 and a major global milestone
In 2022, major content and cloud providers such as Google, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft used 92 % of transatlantic bandwidth, highlighting their dominance in global capacity usage
Repairing a single submarine cable typically costs between
US $ 1m – US $ 3m
with few repair ships available, this poses ongoing challenges to network reliability