I understand the physics behind how the cables themselves work in transmitting light. What I don’t quite understand is how it’s possible to convert millions of messages, emails, etc every second and transmit them back and forth using only a few of those transoceanic cables. Basically, how do they funnel down all that data into several cables?
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Really the answer is Packets. The same way you can have an ethernet connection and get e-mail, be watching a video on a web browser and playing an online game all the the same IP address. It happens the same on the transport end except a much larger bandwidth so more things can happen at the same time.,
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