Does anyone else find it a little weird that the Great Salt Lake is shown on the map but Lake Champlain and Lake of the Woods are not?
Submarine Cable Map 2023
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#12So is dijibouti some massive switching station hub or do those cables just go by it underwater?
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#13This has to be the worst possible way to present this. Just give us a, you know, MAP. With openable annotations and panning so we aren't locked in some view we didn't navigate to with tons of info about something we didn't actually seek out.
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#14If the world could run power along all these submarine telecoms cables then we'd be a lot further towards solving the problem of renewable power generation. I wonder how these kinds of cables compare to HVDC cables in terms of size and cost.
They do, any cable over about 1000km has active repeaters on the seabed which need to be powered.
There is HVDC equipment on both ends and typically each end is sufficient to power the entire cable independently to allow for the cable to continue running through maintenance, shunt faults (basically something earthing out on sea water) or a single failed repeater.
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#16I'm not seeing my favorite, Honotua. It connects Hawai'i to Tahiti. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honotua
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#17I have a 5k display and I can't even quite make the page wide enough to view the entire globe. How are people with regular displays supposed to view it? What a disaster of a presentation!
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#18Some years ago I visited the Transatlantic Cable Station on Valencia Island off the west coast of Ireland, from where the first submarine telegraph cable was laid to Newfoundland in 1857. After several attempts the cable reached Newfoundland in 1866.
Before that moment the fastest way to get a message from Europe to America was aboard a ship; two weeks or so. After that it could be sent over a cable with Morse code.
https://valentiaisland.ie/valentia-transatlantic-cable-stati...
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#19Is there somewhere we can see submarine and land cables both?
Land cables are usually considered classified/sensitive information, so no not generally.
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#20Well a random check of one cable (Gemini Bermuda) shows it was decommissioned in 2004. I wonder how up to date the rest is (based on this one entirely random check).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(submarine_communicatio...