[102238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Feb 2 11:39:22 2008
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:38:14 -0800
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubensk@gmail.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6bb5f5b10802020333naf67658g5ed022ab2312a8b0@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> 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.
and for the difficult parts, they pump helium in and get it above flight
paths.
randy
