How Quintillion plans to prevent a repeat of 2023's widespread internet outage - KNOM Radio Mission

How Quintillion plans to prevent a repeat of 2023's widespread internet outage - KNOM Radio Mission

Just 100 feet under the surface of the Bering Sea, a thin two inch wide cable silently pulses on the seafloor. A flurry of ones and zeroes flash through the cable at near-lightspeed, carrying with it social media posts, Zoom meetings, and medical records. This is Quintillion’s Arctic fiber network, which stretches north from Nome all the way to Prudhoe Bay. There, it meets up with a landline that runs down to Fairbanks and on to the Lower 48. Bu…