On a good day, the cable could carry something like one word per minute.
The amount of current a cable or wire can safely carry depends on the installation conditions.
The cable, called Hawaii-2, could simultaneously carry as many as 138 conversations.
The cable can carry 330 megawatts, enough to light up about 300,000 homes.
The first trans-Atlantic cable, laid in 1956, carried 48 conversations.
New methods for transmitting data using light allow the same cables to carry even more information than originally thought possible.
Both cables can carry more than 32,000 simultaneous calls.
The cable would carry power from the mactor to the living quarters.
Even in these few seconds of freedom, the cable had carried it too far.
A single cable can carry as many as 144 fibers.
