Italy, April 18 -- Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, has joined the European research project ECSTATIC to develop innovative solutions aimed at enhancing the detection capabilities of submarine cable systems for identifying seismic phenomena.Recent experiments suggest that integrating high-speed optical communication with sensing could turn submarine fiber-optic cables into a global distributed sensing system for earthquake and tsunami detection and infrastructure monitoring. With over five billion km of optical fiber cables already installed - many of these traversing undersea regions and areas beyond the reach of conventional sensors - there is a unique opportunity to repurpose ...