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Also happened in Anguilla (Caribbean Sea) last year—some rich person's yacht ran over the ECFS cable [0]. Google went in afterwards and tested one of their moon
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Also happened in Anguilla (Caribbean Sea) last year—some rich person's yacht ran over the ECFS cable [0]. Google went in afterwards and tested one of their moonshot projects—free-space laser communications [1]—as a temporary backhaul.
[0] https://theanguillian.com/2023/02/rapid-response-from-flow-restores-major-outage-caused-by-sub-sea-fiber-break/ https://theanguillian.com/2023/02/rapid-response-from-flow-r...
[1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231101666271/en/Liberty-Networks-Deploys-Taara%E2%80%99s-Wireless-Optical-Communication-Technology-To-Increase-High-Capacity-Connectivity-In-The-Eastern-Caribbean-Region https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231101666271/en/Lib...