Rolling out coherent technology over subsea cables was a key step in uniting land, sea, and cloud networks. ... Submarine networking is the process by which data is carried on subsea cables to connect continents. Submarine networks carry 95 percent of the world's intercontinental electronic communications traffic.

I found this interesting, if you get a chance do some research on "Submarine Telecoms".

Maybe Jason was dropping a hint with the submarine comment. Just a thought. Still digging.