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It's Shark Week, even at Google.Google to shark-proof its massive fiber optic cable with kevlar ...

Fiber-optic cables Fiber-optic cables are exactly what they sound like: cables, like the telephone wires you can see over your head in some places, made up of bundles of individual fiber optics.

Google wraps its underwater fiber cables in Kevlar material, at least in part to protect against shark attacks, an official with the company said recently.

Shark bites are a real threat to undersea fiber-optic cables. No, really. Google actually goes so far as to wrap its wires in a Kevlar-like material to prevent damage from sharks, a company ...

And for that, scientists for the first time have used human DNA to build the smallest fiber optics cables yet created. And as is typical with organic computers, said cables are capable of ...

Here’s how it works. Gepco’s new SMPTE 311M-compliant HDC120P production cable features a 12mm polyurethane jacket while each fiber includes a Kevlar wrap and PVC covering for added protection.

A series of shark attacks is forcing Google to reinforce its underwater, fiber optic cables with a Kevlar-like casing.

Although fiber optic internet cable has many advantages over metal cable, it frequently has to be distributed underground – this limits its usability. Facebook, however, has developed a robot ...

Google is wrapping its fiber-optic cables in a Kevlar-like material, said Dan Belcher, a product manager on the Google cloud team at a company event last week, according to Network World.