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Early Joys
Contemporaries celebrated the event as epoch-making. The press on both sides of the Atlantic competed to express their enthusiasm, practically equating a few telegram messages to the discovery of a new continent. The celebration, however, turned out to be premature: cables that had been laid only after a third attempt broke down after a little more than a month.
Only 732 messages were sent via its copper wires. From the point of view of modern volumes of information transfer, this was but a speck of dust — but that was only the beginning! Even then, it was obvious that communication cables would soon be the “backbone” of the infrastructure of the coming epoch. And the future came so suddenly that today, installations of new cables, grandiose in their capacities, are taken for granted and don’t spark much public interest.
Brusa
The first cable establishing a direct connection between Virginia Beach and Rio de Janeiro offers the lowest latency available today. It was designed specifically to minimise risks in the event of natural disasters.
