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Blimey, there's dozens of 'em.
There's even one from UK to Japan over the top of Russia.
http://www.submarinecablemap.com/
Can I change at Bank 😀
Its like a tube map
Wow zoom in its even more techno.
Blimey, I thought everything went by satellite nowadays.
We've certainly got more than our fair share, for a relatively small island....
Impressive 🙂
Satellite: slow, expensive. Cable: fast, cheap.
Thanks for that link. I love maps!!
Best thing evvaaaa.
did you notice how many land just under here?
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Neal Stephenson wrote a really good non-fiction thing about the cable business - it's in his non-fiction book, can't remember the name.
The first one, TAT-1, isn't on there - that terminated in a lovely out-of-the-way corner of Appin. Keep meaning to go for a look but got disctracted by a giant silica quarry.
That's very cool, thanks OP.
Check out the size of the one coming from Filey.
The "Russian Optical Trans-Arctic Cable System (ROTACS)" providing vital links from a small seaside town in North Yorkshire to Japan and Russia! 😯
It doesn't show the identical matching set of fibres going from each of the undersea ones to GCHQ Cheltenham! A staggering amount of data to mirror and process.....
there are loads more disused ones too, some dating back to WW1 and earlier, we find them quite often during geophys surveys
A staggering amount of data to mirror and process.....
I doubt they mirror [i]everything[/i]. I am sure they'd like to, but it'd be physically impossible. Even Google only caches some websites.
and don't forget O&G infrastructure
the seabed is a busy place!
I doubt they mirror everything. I am sure they'd like to, but it'd be physically impossible. Even Google only caches some websites.
I mean mirror as in mirror port on a router. Apparently the do process everything, but just store meta data for a lot of it. This all came out in the Snowdon releases...
nice map. what do the different colours represent, I can't find a key.
Different cables companies, just click on a cable to see the details....
Surprised there isn't one going to Antarctica. If i was going to be stuck in a remote research station for endless dark nights with sub-god knows what temperatures outside, the one thing i'd demand was a high quality cable connection so i could stream my grumble without buffering it.
They have their own ways of entertaining themselves in Antarctica:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/01/on-getting-naked-in-antarctica/282883/
😉
I was expecting a Haynes Manual image of a wiring loom from u-boat... Interesting all the same 🙂
And this is what happens to cable maintenance ships when they are no longer required.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-12/uoha-han120514.php
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