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re: A map of undersea internet cables
Posted on 2/6/20 at 9:48 am to LSU316
Posted on 2/6/20 at 9:48 am to LSU316
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I had a guy tell me one time that the "Cloud" was going to put Equinix IBXs out of business.....I pretty much knew I was done talking to him at that point.
I own a company that among other things runs cabling in data centers in northern Virginia. I just chuckle when people ask me what I'll do when everything goes wireless.
This post was edited on 2/6/20 at 9:51 am
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Posted on 2/6/20 at 9:49 am to PCRammer
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Believe it or not I actually managed a few of these projects from the engineering side.
S.FL to Uruguay (with many landings in between)
S. FL to St. Maarten (with a few landings in between)
St. Croix is the primary fiber vault and jumping off point to South America.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 9:50 am to DavidTheGnome
I’ll need this map in case I ever need to kill a great white shark
Posted on 2/6/20 at 11:28 am to tiger09
I don't know if the link shows this but Subsea cabling in the GOM covers other functions than communication: power, control, and sometimes, delivery of chemicals. I'd imagine that some of these cables have more function than one.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 11:59 am to DavidTheGnome
i wanna go cut the one in between mainland norway and svalbard
Posted on 2/6/20 at 1:26 pm to Jim Rockford
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Fun fact, the Russian navy is working on the capability of cutting undersea cables. Unclear how effective they would be.
The United States Navy has been doing that since the 1960s. Recommend a book titled blind man’s bluff
US tapped an undersea communications cable between Russian high command and a base across the white Sea . They would send a specialized submarine to pull the tapes after a month or so and replace with fresh ones
This post was edited on 2/6/20 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 2/6/20 at 1:32 pm to tiger09
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There are underwater fiber optic cables in GOM to serve the platforms
That’s neat. But those aren’t relevant to this thread.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 2:23 pm to DavidTheGnome
SvalBard has internet, and that's the only thing that matters.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 3:39 pm to Emteein
"You running 220 there?"
"Yeah, 220, 221 whatever it takes"
Posted on 2/6/20 at 3:44 pm to SlackMaster
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Imagine trying to crimp a RJ45 connector onto that!!
That's definitely not a communications cable
That's subsea power
Posted on 2/6/20 at 3:47 pm to Tigerpaw123
Slightly OT but anyone remember LDDS Worldcom? They purchased a lot of internet capacity in 1990's by buying Williams Oil which was using idle pipelines to run cables and providing early backbones of the internet
Posted on 2/6/20 at 3:58 pm to VABuckeye
I had a client out of Puerto Rico that would go out in Caribbean waters, locates and marks these abandoned cables and then sends out his salvage vessels to pick up the old cables and recycles
quote:
Clean Ocean Initiative Inc. is a corporation under the Laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico pursuing an opportunity to retrieve decommissioned underwater telecommunications cables from the ocean floor.
Posted on 2/6/20 at 4:47 pm to DavidTheGnome
Looks like if you take out New Jersey, you shut down most of it.
Posted on 2/7/20 at 7:26 am to Powerman
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That's subsea power
I did cross my mind that looked like copper instead of fiber but I figured the ling distances might require it. Or, a bad pic. Regardless, it goes to show I don't know crap about subsea cabling! 
This post was edited on 2/8/20 at 9:36 am
Posted on 2/7/20 at 8:00 am to HarryBalzack
Like deeprig said most of the fiber goes to Northern Virginia. There are manholes in NOVA that if you managed to get the lid open you be staring at a bunch of black Suburbans bearing down on you with the quickness.
86% of the worlds Internet traffic routes through NOVA. Specifically, Ashburn VA.
86% of the worlds Internet traffic routes through NOVA. Specifically, Ashburn VA.
This post was edited on 2/7/20 at 8:02 am
Posted on 2/7/20 at 2:47 pm to VABuckeye
quote:Is that the result of ARPANET being an American invention?
86% of the worlds Internet traffic routes through NOVA. Specifically, Ashburn VA
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