http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20065510 en Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:55:48 EDT Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:55:48 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20069350 switchman : Actually, they do plow it into the seabed. They use remote controlled robots to do it. There is a couple of flash animations on how they do it here »www1.alcatel-lucent.com/submarin···ndex.htm.

Here is a map of various submarine fibers around the world »www1.alcatel-lucent.com/submarin···7_LR.pdf]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20069350 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:34:32 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20065614 wolfox : It is not like they send divers down to lay the cable. It's spooled off the rear deck of a huge trolling ship, much like you see telco trucks towing spools of telephone bundles. It's left to sink on its own to the bottom of the sea to lay on the ocean floor. They only guide where it falls and let gravity and the fishies do the rest. :D
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The RIAA killed my legal webcast. Sadly it will never be mourned...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20065614 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:57:02 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20065608 DrModem : They already have cables running like this you know. And Whales won't go to the bottom to mess with some cable, and I'm pretty sure pressure doesn't effect cables either.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20065608 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:56:11 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20065510 diesector : I wonder exactly *how* they will accomplish this, what with the depths found in the pacific ocean, 100+ ton whales, enormous pressure found at such depths, man-eating sharks, electric eels, etc. etc. It almost makes me wanna book passage to watch this in action. As for bandwidth caps, yep, legend has it that there is a 60 gb/month upload cap on this wire....]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20065510 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:39:41 EDT