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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.
Why only 8? Why don't they put like 100 in there?
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> Bitten by a shark, or snagged on a russian submarine? In all likelihood much less interesting, probably snagged in a fishing net or hit by an anchor.
I imagined they would be hurried under the sea bed. Probably cheaper to place them on the surface?
According to [1], a plough is dragged along the ocean floor behind the cable laying ship. The plough digs a trench that the cables are fed into. I can't really tell from the pictures whether the trench is covered back up.
[2] shows a really cool animation. Apparently ploughs like these can bury cables 2-3 meters into the ocean floor, and use a jet of water to help dig. Good stuff.
1: https://www.quora.com/How-are-major-undersea-cables-laid-in-... 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hEDTRU_F2s
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> Bitten by a shark, or snagged on a russian submarine? In all likelihood much less interesting, probably snagged in a fishing net or hit by an anchor.
Can’t rule out Russian military dolphins these days. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/27/russia-black-s...
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Can they somehow tell exactly where the cable was cut?
These used to be big, expensive, standalone devices (I'd occasionally use one in a previous job). Nowadays, there are portable, handheld units specifically for identifying where a break has occurred and the same, basic functionality is often even built into the gear used at either end of connections (e.g., even the "enterprise" switches -- from Brocade and Cisco -- that I use at home).
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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_time-domain_reflectome...
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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.
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…
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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.
Do they just fuse any strand to any strand and resort everything at the end or?
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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?
https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/systems/asia-europe-afr...
Dumb question: I thought TCP/IP was designed to route around cut fibre cuts.
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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.
Do they just fuse any strand to any strand and resort everything at the end or?