Earlier quoted context omitted.
As Hetzner is a co-investor in the cable, it is partially their cable.
So do they own a solid chunk of it somewhere, or like a really long pie-slice sliver down the whole thing?
It's probably split up by wavelengths.
Hetzner subsea fibre cut outage
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Re: Hetzner subsea fibre cut outage
#42Happens quite often to subsea cables. I was renting a number of them and every now and again you'd get a break. You can follow the NOC's update emails: Break detected Ship has been commissioned Ship is at harbor Ship has sailed out to the cut Fusing the ends Service restored
What's the typical timeline for that cycle? Hours, days, weeks? Just curious. I'm sure it costs an astronomical amount of money.
Days, but I had one time where the ships were booked up and it took longer.
Re: Hetzner subsea fibre cut outage
#43Happens quite often to subsea cables. I was renting a number of them and every now and again you'd get a break. You can follow the NOC's update emails: Break detected Ship has been commissioned Ship is at harbor Ship has sailed out to the cut Fusing the ends Service restored
How the hell do you fuse the ends of a massive cable like this at the bottom of the sea?!
You pull it up to the surface and fuse it on the boat.
Re: Hetzner subsea fibre cut outage
#44Re: Hetzner subsea fibre cut outage
#45Happens quite often to subsea cables. I was renting a number of them and every now and again you'd get a break. You can follow the NOC's update emails: Break detected Ship has been commissioned Ship is at harbor Ship has sailed out to the cut Fusing the ends Service restored
How the hell do you fuse the ends of a massive cable like this at the bottom of the sea?!
Find it, pick it up, patch it on deck, lower it back down.
Re: Hetzner subsea fibre cut outage
#46Happens quite often to subsea cables. I was renting a number of them and every now and again you'd get a break. You can follow the NOC's update emails: Break detected Ship has been commissioned Ship is at harbor Ship has sailed out to the cut Fusing the ends Service restored
How the hell do you fuse the ends of a massive cable like this at the bottom of the sea?!
You find the ends, pick them up, and there's a kit that can fuse the ends to your new piece. I'm not sure about the details, but I think there are repeaters on the wire that need to be added as well.
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#47Is it one big horkin' cable that needs to be spliced by divers? Or is it hundreds of tiny little fibers?
It's one big cable with eight individual fibers. But they aren't fused by divers, the cable will be brought to the surface and fused onboard the repair ship.
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#48If, like me, you didn't know how these get cut I'll save you the trouble. The most likely cause is improper boat anchoring. Never shark bites.
Re: Hetzner subsea fibre cut outage
#49Happens quite often to subsea cables. I was renting a number of them and every now and again you'd get a break. You can follow the NOC's update emails: Break detected Ship has been commissioned Ship is at harbor Ship has sailed out to the cut Fusing the ends Service restored
How the hell do you fuse the ends of a massive cable like this at the bottom of the sea?!
This has pretty good information on it, and a couple videos:
Re: Hetzner subsea fibre cut outage
#50This isn't Hetzner's own cable, and it's not just "any" cable - it's an Alcatel-Lucent + Cinia + EU project, with 150 terabits worth of bandwidth. It's a high profile target, but it's just as likely that it's just an anchor accident.
Is there sth like a status page for submarine cables?