Another challenge now: damage to the telecommunications cables that connect cellphone antennas to the telecom network.

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Underwater broadband cables connect the island nation to both of those continents.

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Cold-ironing is when ships at berth connect via large cables to the shore-side power grid for electricity.

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The HDMI cables that connect phones to monitors tend to be short, notes Goren.

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And the undersea cables that connect continents can't keep up with today's network speeds.

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These, in turn, connect to 132KV export cables carrying the electricity to a beach landing point at Pensarn for onward transmission to the new electricity sub station at St Asaph.

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The country proudly boasts three separate cables - Seacom, Teams and Eassy - that connect it to the rest of the world.

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Verizon said Wednesday that it planned to offer telephone service to those residents though Verizon Voice Link, a wireless technology that will connect to their home telephones, rather than repair the underground cables.

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Cables head into the back of the base and connect beneath two user-removable panels on both sides of display's back -- making the only visible port the lone USB connector on the left side of the front.

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Without the old layer of short-distance cables, this new Ethernet system will connect servers and storage drives directly to long-distance networks, making them accessible to each other from hundreds or thousands of miles away.

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