The Dunant subsea cable

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Post by johannesboyne » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 12:55 PM UTC

The Dunant subsea cable
cloud.google.com

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Post by supernovae » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 2:02 PM UTC

Is this why they're losing billions?

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Post by aynyc » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 2:02 PM UTC

I know nothing of this type of engineering. How do you even start a project like this? Map the bottom of the ocean, figure out all the danger zones? What is the cost of doing something like this?

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Post by SloopJon » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 2:04 PM UTC

Wow, talk about a barrier to entry. Google already has Curie from North America to South America and Equiano from Portugal to South Africa. They're also working on Hopper from North America to UK and Spain:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/announ...

I presume that the other trillion-dollar companies are getting in on the action too.

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Post by chokeartist » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 2:05 PM UTC

aynyc wrote: post #3

I know nothing of this type of engineering. How do you even start a project like this? Map the bottom of the ocean, figure out all the danger zones? What is the cost of doing something like this?

In nutshell you got it. The cost is basically just bend over and smile (not trying to be glib... it is HUGE).

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Post by cmpb » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 2:09 PM UTC

Ah the old "entire digitized Library of Congress" per second metric

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Post by sschueller » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 2:11 PM UTC

Do those come with pre attached NSA listening devices [1] ?

[1] https://siliconangle.com/2013/07/19/how-the-nsa-taps-underse...

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Post by onion2k » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 2:12 PM UTC

You could load a modern Javascript-powered website in less than a minute with that.

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Post by ThePadawan » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 2:13 PM UTC

cmpb wrote: post #6

Ah the old "entire digitized Library of Congress" per second metric

I always find comparisons using text data incredibly worthless.

I'm sure a Shakespeare play or The Great Gatsby are barely a few megabytes.

But if you asked Joe Shmoe on the street "In Great Gatsbys, how big was the last picture your iPhone took", they would rightly have zero idea.

It's so useless.

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Post by ericpauley » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 2:15 PM UTC

cmpb wrote: post #6

Ah the old "entire digitized Library of Congress" per second metric

I think this says more about the minuscule (on Google scale) ~10TB size of the digitized library of Congress.