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How To Build a $188M Submarine Cable System

Posted by kdawson on from the follow-along-at-home dept.

Bevan Slattery writes "PIPE Networks has launched a blog and an online progress report on the construction of its $188M (AU$200M), 6,900-km submarine cable system connecting Sydney (Australia) to Piti (Guam). People can follow the many tasks required to construct a submarine cable and track the project's progress. The daily blog provides unique insight into PPC-1's construction, including for example the different types of cable installed in 'benign' and 'aggressive' seabed conditions."

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  1. Wow by Kamineko · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Fascinating stuff. I'm still amazed that we have underwater cables at all. I had be shown a map of existing cables before I believed it. http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/submarine/refs/index.htm http://networks.cs.ucdavis.edu/~zhuk/maps/alcatel_large.gif

    1. Re:Wow by nacnud75 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Think that is amazing, check out this map of undersea cables, from 1901!

  2. Why Guam? by FriendlyLurker · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Why would Australia, already with very limited high cost bandwidth to the rest of the world, bother building out cable to the small remote isolated island of Guam?
    Perhaps the US government is limiting not only it's internal filtering system to Only 50 Gateways, but is out to channel the rest of the world through Echelons as well

    Further information published by the US Air Force identifies the US Naval Security Group Station at Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico as a COMSAT interception site. Its mission is "to become the premier satellite communications processing and analysis field station". These and further documents concerning Echelon and COMSAT interception stations at Yakima, Sabana Seco (Puerto Rico), Misawa (Japan) and Guam have been published on the web.[20]
    Inside Echelon
  3. Histroy uncovered? by iamsamed · · Score: 2, Interesting
    How many of you saw the article and the photo and hope that the undersea survey produces more pictures of sunken WWII stuff?

    Or has that area been completely mapped and photographed?