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Can they somehow tell exactly where the cable was cut?
This video explains and show the same concept for copper cables in a very simple and hands on way: "Cheap and simple TDR using an oscilloscope and 74AC14 Schmitt Trigger Inverter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cP6w2odGUc
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They are a co-investor... so its partially their cable.
And as I'm an EU citizen paying top taxes, plenty of which went into funding the project, it's partially my cable as well.
To be specific - you invested in EU taxes, while others invested in cable.
Happens 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?!
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So do they own a solid chunk of it somewhere, or like a really long pie-slice sliver down the whole thing?
Neither, it's shared ownership. It's similar to if you buy a house with your partner: neither of you owns specific rooms, but you own the whole thing together. There's likely agreements about which fibers (there's 8 fiber pairs in the cable) and/or how much bandwidth everyone can use, though.
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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.
Happens 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
If, 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.
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/14/google-un...
Bitten by a shark, or snagged on a russian submarine? Whichever the case, I just ran an ansible deployment over our cluster that's spread over their Frankfurt and Helsinki datacenters, and I didn't notice any difference. I guess that's to be expected, their line between those datacenters is just an optimization, the internet is still functioning as it always is and maybe Hetzner gets a slightly larger egress bill fro…
When I lived in Cayman, the main fiber link (Maya-1[0]) was down for about a week (anchor drag, I think). Most of the island Caribbean has limited backup connectivity. The whole island only has one fiber line (around the whole western/southern Gulf of Mexico) and a crappy backup copper line to Jamaica. For a while, it was like being on a modem again. Forget about streaming anything. This outage Hetzner is reporting i…
Internet in Congo if you're not on the UN satellite