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More than 550,000 miles of undersea fiber-optic cable wrap around the globe to deliver e-mails, Web pages, other electronic communications and phone calls from one continent to another at the speed of light. As cables make landfall, they connect to landing stations that route the voice, data and Internet traffic to domestic networks or forward the signal to another undersea network that carries the data onto their final international destination.