Facts about the Internet's undersea cables

Page 1

Facts about the Internet's undersea cables In describing the Internet's wiring system, Neil Stephenson once compared the earth to a computer motherboard. At the basic level, there is evidence that the Internet is a spaghetti-work of long wires, ranging from telephone poles to disconnecting cable bundles and posting warning signs about buried fiber-optic lines.

Facts about the Internet's undersea cables Here are the 10 things you may not know about the Internet's undersea cable system.

1. Cable installation is a slow, difficult, inexperienced task. Ninety-nine percent of the international data is transmitted by wires at the bottom of the ocean, known as ​submarine communication cables​. In total, they are hundreds of thousands of miles long and as deep as Everest. The cable is installed through special layers called cable-layers. This is more than falling off the wires that attach to the ankles - usually, the cable should be driven on the flat surfaces of the ocean floor and through coral reefs, landfills, fish beds, and other ecological habitats and common barriers. Precautions are taken to prevent it. The shallow water cable is about the same diameter as the soda canister, but deep water cables are very thin - about the size of a magic marker. While the cost per mile for installation varies depending on the total length and destination, it always costs millions of dollars to run a cable across the ocean.


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.