This is what the Internet actually looks like: The undersea cables wiring the Earth

[Mark Wein]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/04/tech/...-cables/index.html?sr=fb030414underseamap230p

 

[Guitar Heel]

I can't begin to "fathom" the engineering it takes to place a giant cable at the bottom of the ocean.

 

[Tig]

Enjoy

 

[dodgechargerfan]

There was a really good episode of Mighty Ships that showed the process. They laid the leg of cabling that connects to Costa Rica in this picture:

 

[Lerxst]

I can't begin to "fathom" the engineering it takes to place a giant cable at the bottom of the ocean.

 

[Guitar Heel]

 

[Deep Eddy]

I can't begin to "fathom" the engineering it takes to place a giant cable at the bottom of the ocean.

There's nothing to it.

1. Just get a really, really big spool of fiber optic cable and load it on a cable ship like this:

2. Then you place a sign at each end where the cable comes ashore.

3. ???

4. Profit.

 

[Guitar Heel]

There's nothing to it.

1. Just get a really, really big spool of fiber optic cable and load it on a cable ship like this:

2. Then you place a sign at each end where the cable comes ashore.

3. ???

4. Profit.

so it's not buried then? Just sitting on top?

 

[Deep Eddy]

so it's not buried then? Just sitting on top?

Not buried. The cable just lays on the bottom of the ocean. I believe they bury the cable in shallower waters close to shore, but I'm not 100% certain about that (the cables are sometimes caught by fishing trollers, which can cause outages, so that leads me to think the cables are not buried close to shore either) I have a friend who works in telecom with a major intl telco. He would know the answer to this question.

 

[Elias Graves]

Cool. Now I know where they're all located and my evil plan for world domination can commence!

 

[dodgechargerfan]

Cool. Now I know where they're all located and my evil plan for world domination can commence!

Goat pron to rule the world!!

 

[Elias Graves]

Goat pron to rule the world!!

That's just for starters!
There's the mohair council
The Free Range For All Goats Initiative
The "I can stand on your car if I want" PSAs
And the "How to pick the right goat for you" program.

It's gonna be baa-some!

 

[mongooz]

what's really amazing, is that the first cables laid between the US and the UK/Europe, back before and during WWII......are STILL in operation today. :i:

 

[irishstu]

I can't begin to "fathom" the engineering it takes to place a giant cable at the bottom of the ocean.

That's deep.

 

[Elias Graves]

what's really amazing, is that the first cables laid between the US and the UK/Europe, back before and during WWII......is STILL are operation today. :i:

Before the idea of disposable products came along...

 

[BoomBoomBigelow]

There's nothing to it.

1. Just get a really, really big spool of fiber optic cable and load it on a cable ship like this

???

Finding that really big spool of cable is gonna be tough now that Radio Shack is closing all those stores.

 

[tiger roach]

There was a really good episode of Mighty Ships that showed the process. They laid the leg of cabling that connects to Costa Rica in this picture:

They might have done a crappy job, because my internet connection here sucks.

 

[BlackCat]

Note to anyone buying bandwidth on a sub-sea cable. Bite the bullet and pay for the protected path. Otherwise be prepared for frequent and extended outages.

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[aliensporebomb]

Fascinating.

 

[Steverino]

No pron for Cuba or North Korea.