Communications Under the Seas: The Evolving Cable Network and Its Implications

by Daqing Yang

The technology of undersea communications, from stranded-wire telegraph cables in the 1850s to fiber-optic cables at the end of the twentieth century, and its social, political, and economic impact.

By the end of the twentieth century, fiber-optic technology had made possible a worldwide communications system of breathtaking speed and capacity. This amazing network is the latest evolution of communications technologies that began with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262012863
• ISBN13: 9780262012867
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher