The Global Fiber Backbone Under Pressure: How the AI Supercycle is Rewriting the Rules of Subsea and Terrestrial Networks
Executive Overview Global finance, international commerce, defense operations, and digital entertainment depend on a fragile, highly complex web of submarine and terrestrial fiber-optic networks. As humanity hurtles deeper into an era defined by artificial intelligence, cloud-native services, and big data, the physical underpinnings of the internet are facing an unprecedented stress test. Subsea fiber cables,…
