[102237] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rubens Kuhl Jr.)
Sat Feb 2 06:46:11 2008
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 09:33:24 -0200
From: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubensk@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2d106eb50802010901s2bf3cf5m1be1989143399d@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> "NEW YORK (AP) -- The lines that tie the globe together by carrying
> phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch thick
> where they lie on the ocean floor."
And AFAIK not all kilometers of cables lie on the ocean floor; if the
ocean has high depth on a given part of the cable route, the cable
simply floats on the water on that run. It's just a matter of having
enough pressure to lift it up.
Rubens
