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Is there sth like a status page for submarine cables?
Possibly, but none that I'm aware of.
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Hetzner subsea fibre cut outage
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Why only 8? Why don't they put like 100 in there?
Look up how DWDM works; they don't need more than 8. The optical gear that goes on land, keeps getting more capable of driving ever more bandwidth over the same fiber...
Don't the inline amplifiers need to be upgraded too?
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I imagined they would be hurried under the sea bed. Probably cheaper to place them on the surface?
I imagined it'd too impractical to bury them in case they need repairs, but apparently they're buried at least in some cases. 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 bur…
Wow that’s one very interesting specialized machine