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Map of worldwide undersea cables

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Re: Map of worldwide undersea cables

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CoachRufus87 wrote: post #7

what's the diameter of one of these cables? are they literally laid on the ocean floor?

You can see one at http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=3111

And yes, they are laid on the floor, mostly. In shallows they may be armored against sharks or plowed in to protect against anchors.

The Neal Stephenson, WIRED article is an excellent read, but honestly unless you have a new Safari or some bookmarklet to extract the content from the surrounding flashing lights and popping ads you will probably go blind before you finish it.

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Post by celoyd »

jodrellblank wrote: post #12

Why is there a 5TBps line from the northern part of mainland Norway up to Svalbard? Is there much telecomms there?

From Svalbard you can see pretty much every polar orbit once per orbit, plus Norway is politically stable and very liberal with research licenses there, plus it’s warm for the latitude. So there’s demand from the kind of people who have polar-orbiting satellites that produce a lot of data.

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Post by bradly »

mjcohen wrote: post #17

How vulnerable are the cables to physical attack (i.e., drag something heavy and sharp along the ocean floor)?

There are about 50 repairs in the Atlantic each year. The cables are damaged by anchors and fishing lines and even things like shark bites and whale entanglements.

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Post by w1ntermute »

jws wrote: post #11
CoachRufus87 wrote: post #7

what's the diameter of one of these cables? are they literally laid on the ocean floor?

You can see one at http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=3111 And yes, they are laid on the floor, mostly. In shallows they may be armored against sharks or plowed in to protect against anchors. The Neal Stephenson, WIRED article is an excellent read, but honestly unless you have a new Safari or some bookmarklet to extract the content from the surrounding flashing lights and popping ads you will probably go blind before you…

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