US to Europe connection?

[Andyman902042]

Couldn't you just imagine a bare little Cat5 cable running along the bottom of the ocean.


But really, isn't that just wierd that they can make a cable thats long enough to go from one continent to the other. Isn't the ocean like hundreds of miles deep. Think of how much pressure would be pressing down on that.

 

[b0bby]

I think you mean Sea. Sorry, couldn't resist...

lol you know what i meant. didn't forget bout those big masses of water. if its buried my statement about land is still correct.

 

[TalRW]

Couldn't you just imagine a bare little Cat5 cable running along the bottom of the ocean.


But really, isn't that just wierd that they can make a cable thats long enough to go from one continent to the other. Isn't the ocean like hundreds of miles deep. Think of how much pressure would be pressing down on that.

Yea, but also when you think Cat5 cable has a max length of 300 (ft or yards or meters, i forget, but whatever) before it starts losing data. Imagine how heavy duty that cable must be, all that pressure on it, and it doesn't lose the data at those intense distances.

 

[gustav]

There is a website that shows pretty much exactly how the fiber optic cable is laid across the ocean. I believe it is buried for the first part and once it gets to the flat part of the ocean it is just layed on the ground. I will search around the net and try to find the website that describes how it is done and everything.

There is no "flat" part of the ocean. In fact, there are big "mountains" under the sea. Theres one in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, inbetween North American and Europe. Its called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The "mountains" in the sea are much much larger than the biggest on land. The Oceans have the deepest valleys and the highest mountains, much larger than those on land.



I can imagine it was very expensive to do, but they (governments) felt it was needed and I'm glad it was done because it allows the people of the world to come closer together and learn more via the internet.

 

[Smokeys]

The beginning of an article states that its a 10gbit link dedicated for research purposes its not for general use, think Internet2.

According to here there is about 400gbit of undersea bandwidth between North America and Europe. As well the deepest part of the ocean is 11km deep, and i'm sure they advoid trying to lay cable on that part

From here they run repeaters which are placed every 10km to nearly 200km to reamplify the signal.

 

[Andyman902042]

the deepest part of the ocean is 11km deep

Oh. I thought it was much deeper than that, well i guess 11km is pretty deep.

 

[lucas81]

My uncle works at Cisco Systems, he said that Cisco has linked all the headquarters with their own fiber line. They do a lot of video conferences and their "internal" phone calls goes through them too. So if Cisco had their own fibre connection, I asume there is (at leaste one) fiber line between US and Europe.

 

[Disputant]

I think I read somewhere that the cable for deep sea is about 1.5 inches in diameter and the shallow cable is 2.5 inches in diameter for more protection.

The first transatlantic cable went into operation in 1988 by ATT, I think and that was for 40,000 phone circuits.

 

[JDXNC]

The first transatlantic cable went into operation in 1988 by ATT, I think and that was for 40,000 phone circuits.

The first cable was in place LONG before that, actually 1858 , read about it here: http://www.history-magazine.com/cable.html

 

[coin]

One of the 'public' transatlantic links is run by a company called Pipex, the cabling terminates in the UK around Manchester in the North West and is then linked to the backbone networks. It is one of many fibre connections between the UK and the US with most of then terminating on the West coast of England.

Linkage:
http://www.turnkey.net/worldfiber.htm
http://www.iscpc.org/cabledb/atlan_page.htm
http://www.telekom.yu/SiteTelekom/Firma/TelekomunikacioniKablovi.htm
http://www.oceansatlas.com/unatlas/uses/transportation_telecomm/marine_tel/subcables/area3a.htm


Oh my god the first transatlantic cable venture was in 1857!
http://www.connected-earth.com/Jour...icventure/field-firsttransatlanticventure.htm



edit: damn beaten to it by JDXNC

 

[SniperXX]

Ok i thought i was right with the fiber optics and boats. But I still learned a ton and thats some cool knowledge to know for the heck of it, lol. Its pretty interesting too with the 1st cables linked. Man that was along time ago..

 

[Cjwinnit]

There's gotta be tons of bandwidth between Europe and North America...

Edit: One example:

http://www.flagtelecom.com/network/flag_atlantic_1.html

And there's gotta be a lot more from the rest of the operators..