Earth's Submarine Fiber Optic Cable Network | Submarine communications cable

A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried telegraphy traffic, establishing the first instant telecommunications links between continents, such as the first transatlantic telegraph cable which became operational on 16 August 1858. Subsequent generations of cables carried telephone traffic, then data communications traffic. Modern cables use optical fibre technology to carry digital data, which includes telephone, Internet and private data traffic.
Modern cables are typically about 25 mm (1 in) in diameter and weigh around 1.4 tonnes per kilometre (2.5 short tons per mile; 2.2 long tons per mile) for the deep-sea sections which comprise the majority of the run, although larger and heavier cables are used for shallow-water sections near shore. Submarine cables first connected all the world's continents (except Antarctica) when Java was connected to Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, in 1871 in anticipation of the completion of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line in 1872 connecting to Adelaide, South Australia and thence to the rest of Australia.
Cross-section of a modern submarine communications cable:
1. Polyethylene
2. Mylar tape
3. Stranded steel wires
4. Aluminium water barrier
5. Polycarbonate
6. Copper or aluminium tube
7. Petroleum jelly
8. Optical fibres
This article (www.computerworld.com/article...) indicates that Google laid 9000 km of cable for a total project cost of about $300 million. That would be about $10 per foot.
Visualization created by Tyler Morgan-Wall
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[@chad_b]

That's crazy. I wonder how far it would reach in to space if it was extended straight out from the earth

[@acenull0]

Crazy to think the internet is literally a bunch of wires 😂

[@smokep4293]

This is the perfect example of a video I want to watch at 3 a.m.

[@rev_artworks]

and the fish get free internet

[@brendyn9901]

The world wide web 🕸️

[@iammuzzi]

Gives it a whole new meaning no

[@guysumpthin2974]

Sprint built it , now tmobile owns it

[@stoneysscapes7544]

1 day it won't matter but until then we can get together from far & wide , unless you have a Dictator that keeps you in the dark and inside where a knock on your little door then open so his arrogant Army inspector will come to see if his picture is in place and he better be or that is going to make any homeowner no longer BE 😊

[@antoniaanselmo4485]

You should see how this would look on the flat earth map... just for shits and giggles 😃

[@JusFnKevn]

That could be very interesting 🤔

[@shiraz9986]

This mad me crack👍

[@Maxim.Teleguz]

Pay attention to where it crosses and you will find out the maps are not real.

[@danielbush6882]

What do you mean?

[@Draw4Dame]

@@danielbush6882 I would also like to know, are their islands that are in the way on maps?

[@kepler4190]

oh god the flat earther came

[@Maxim.Teleguz]

@@danielbush6882 the land masses are not correctly scaled that is why the length of the fiber optic cable is not even able to be fit accurately on the models that we see. If we used accurate scaled models of the submarine cables on a map we would quickly realize the continent size is incorrect.
That’s all I wanted to point out. Other people here are just trolls.

[@Maxim.Teleguz]

@@kepler4190 how should we refer to you then? Didn’t we hear from the “scientist” that 68 miles above earth you don’t see a curve. Yet globers argue horizon lensing and atmospheric distortion so that they can admit to themselves they are normal and not be the subject of their own humor?
68miles above earth is a very good Pythagorean equation to use. Because line of sight would be further than that. So if we can see more than 68 miles out and not see a curve this only means the earth is bigger than what we are told.

[@nepthaleenraj4872]

😳😳😳😳😳😱

[@cuttingcoffee]

I think people are way obsessed with internet wires.

[@mscir]

Stats would have made this far more interesting than watching the globe revolve multiple times. Want more viewers? Do more work.

[@TabuDavidMukuha]

more work doesn't necessarily equate to more views... some of my laziest videos/edits have the most views and vice versa

[@LM-zb7ge]

Please disconnect the one linking India to North America. I’m freaking tired of those scams.

[@johnnydepp3500]

Are you interested in making $600 in every 24 hours