Erin Murphy

Erin Murphy appears in Why the Trump administration plans to boost funding for subsea cables as the expert explaining why Undersea Data Cables have become strategic infrastructure. She frames submarine cables as old telecommunications technology that now carries nearly all internet and telecom traffic, while ownership and financing have shifted toward hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Meta.

Her contribution to the wiki is the operational link between commercial infrastructure and national security. Murphy argues that cable routes, vendor trust, landing-point equipment, sabotage ambiguity, and redundancy all matter when the United States funds replacement cables in the Caribbean and Central America as part of Trusted Network Geopolitics.

Connections

• Marketplace Tech - episode context.
• Undersea Data Cables, Cable Landing Point Security, Cable Network Resilience, and Trusted Network Geopolitics - concepts grounded by her explanation.
• United States, China, Russia, Caribbean, and Central America - geopolitical frame in the source.