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1988

TAT-8 carries the first transatlantic fiber-optic traffic

Fiber-optic cable infrastructure begins to remake global communications capacity and speed.

Canonical milestoneAtlantic Ocean1 timeline

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TimelineTimeline of Glass

Position 18

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Encyclopaedia BritannicaConfidence 93%

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