Google and Meta, starved of high-capacity connectivity in some areas, are driving explosive growth in submarine fiber optic cable capacity the world over, seeing involvement in more than half of all new projects. With mobile network operators the world over raising cash for 5G spectrum or network deployments, this past year has also seen significant investments in underlying telecoms infrastructure. Undersea fiber optic cable (FOC) networks represent a critical telco infrastructure piece which have seen rising deployments in recent years, with many more outstanding. From the first commercial availability of a submarine FOC in 1989, the global market has expanded rapidly, connecting data centers all over the world. As the backbone of the Internet and of cellular communications services, submarine…