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1988

TAT-8 brings transatlantic fiber-optic service

Fiber-optic cable vastly increased the volume and speed of intercontinental data transmission.

Canonical milestoneNorth Atlantic1 timeline

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Position 20

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Encyclopaedia BritannicaConfidence 93%

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internetfiber-optics