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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. Re:Why Guam? by stryyker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps so they can have lower cost bandwidth to the rest of the world and connect to other carriers at Guam?

  3. Re:Why Guam? by mattMad · · Score: 5, Informative

    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? If you look at this map http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/submarine/refs/Asian_Map_LR.pdf that a previous poster linked to you will see that Guam is already quite well connected (both to Asian countries and to the US) - so connecting Australia to Guam gives much more benefits than just being connected to Guam.