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RE: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Sat Feb 2 13:08:38 2008
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 18:07:13 +0000
To: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubensk@gmail.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Really? What cable is that?!
-----Original Message-----
From: Rubens Kuhl Jr. <rubensk@gmail.com>
Sent: 02 February 2008 11:33
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt under=
sea cable disruption
> "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
