[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Submarine Cable Map (Page 1 of 3)
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Too small. Can't read anything on it. Not the first time I heard that... Try This ONe one for size... |
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Wow! That's a whole lot of very expensive cable. Check out the interactive map link: http://submarine-cable-map-2013.telegeography.com/ You can zoom in and see individual cable routes and names. |
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It blows my mind that we can make and run cable that length. The first transatlantic telegraph cable was run in 1858, but it only lasted a few weeks in service. A reliable cable was worked out in 1866. For those that remember international phone calls prior to about the mid 60's, remember how sometimes you'd get a line with a delay and major echoes? People always thought they were using the cables on them, and the clear lines were coming off the Telstar satellites. Exactly the opposite though. 
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What is scarey is how many of them go thru the Gulf of Aden past Yemen into the Red Sea. If the terrorists really wanted to do some damage they could just drag anchor thru there.  Cable snags happen. A lot. Usually the impact is minimal as service is rerouted. There were a few well publicized incidents in 2008 though. |
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Are these cables laying on the ocean floor or are they suspended at a certain depth? 
not really that funny smartass, go be a prick somewhere else, this thread is for nice people curious about telecom. Hey prick, go be an asshat somewhere else. You're certainly not one of the nice people, if you even know anything about telecom. |
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My dad made a run on the Cable Ship Long Lines when they ran TAT-7. I was able to get a brief walkaround tour of the deck when it came back in. http://wpcore.wpe.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Global-Marine-Energy-300x260.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8040/8017816782_c88e253a9c_z.jpg She was quite a beast. thats damn cool, I remember seing this ship in Honolulu harbor when I was a kid |
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Are these cables laying on the ocean floor or are they suspended at a certain depth?
not really that funny smartass, go be a prick somewhere else, this thread is for nice people curious about telecom. Hey prick, go be an asshat somewhere else. You're certainly not one of the nice people, if you even know anything about telecom. never said i knew the first thing about telecom, and you may be right about me not being nice either, BUT your the asshat laughing at people asking questions. So STFU and GTFO. |
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Are these cables laying on the ocean floor or are they suspended at a certain depth? http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv5/sizeNstrength/perplexedjoker.jpg Yeah I was serious. I've never read up on any of this stuff. If they are on the floor, do thermal vents damage the cable, or seismic events such as rock slides? How are they repaired? I didn't realize a requirement of GD is to be knowledgeable on ocean cables... |
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Are these cables laying on the ocean floor or are they suspended at a certain depth?
not really that funny smartass, go be a prick somewhere else, this thread is for nice people curious about telecom. Hey prick, go be an asshat somewhere else. You're certainly not one of the nice people, if you even know anything about telecom. Whoa language! |
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all i really care about is the one we tapped for like 20 years, where is that one? That is not shown on the map but was between mainland Russia (Pacific) Coast and the Kamchatka Peninsula.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamchatka_Peninsula http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Okhotsk Did you read that in Blind Mans Bluff? Thats where I read about it... Beaten by tnsparky . |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Are these cables laying on the ocean floor or are they suspended at a certain depth? not really that funny smartass, go be a prick somewhere else, this thread is for nice people curious about telecom. Hey prick, go be an asshat somewhere else. You're certainly not one of the nice people, if you even know anything about telecom. never said i knew the first thing about telecom, and you may be right about me not being nice either, BUT your the asshat laughing at people asking questions. So STFU and GTFO. sandgina |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Are these cables laying on the ocean floor or are they suspended at a certain depth? http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv5/sizeNstrength/perplexedjoker.jpg Yeah I was serious. I've never read up on any of this stuff. If they are on the floor, do thermal vents damage the cable, or seismic events such as rock slides? How are they repaired? I didn't realize a requirement of GD is to be knowledgeable on ocean cables... Cable route avoids areas that would cause damage. Extra length is provided to prevent tensile loading, for example S bends. Cables are repaired by pulling the break to the surface. Either snagging or remote operated vehicle are used to bring the break to the surface for repair. Cable tracking is done using either injected tone, magnetic anomaly detectors or metal detector type instruments. Some detecting equipment is mounted on the ROV. Many times, cables are buried below the sediment to protect from trawlers or small anchors. These are uncovered using jetting equipment. Basically, a pressure washer on the ROV is used to uncover the cable. |
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all i really care about is the one we tapped for like 20 years, where is that one? This one? |
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those of you that are interested this is an old video AT&T made about the cable laying.
http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2011/3/21/AT&T-Archives-CS-Longlines |
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Here's some interesting info I read up on a while back. It has the specs for some of the cables. Just interesting info in general.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_communications_cable |
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Are these cables laying on the ocean floor or are they suspended at a certain depth?
not really that funny smartass, go be a prick somewhere else, this thread is for nice people curious about telecom. Hey prick, go be an asshat somewhere else. You're certainly not one of the nice people, if you even know anything about telecom. never said i knew the first thing about telecom, and you may be right about me not being nice either, BUT your the asshat laughing at people asking questions. So STFU and GTFO. sandgina maybe its sandgina out there in AZ but we have dirt here and grass and trees and other really cool shit, so maybe like dirtleafgina or something like that. Dude was being a dick and I called him out on it. |