Cable-Laying Boom Will Boost Internet Capacity

Barence writes "Dozens of new undersea internet cables are set to be laid over the next couple of years, providing a huge boost to worldwide capacity. The huge boom in internet video has led to doomsday scenarios of the internet running out of capacity. Although experts believe that there is abundant amounts of 'dark fibre' lying unused in oceans across the world, major telcos are pushing ahead with projects that will see at least 25 new cables laid by 2010, at a cost of $6.4bn."

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Unfortunately, due to their cheap slave labor

[LM741N]

all the cables are MADE IN CHINA, and have all sorts of warning labels on them like: "Do not overload with data, may cause fire," "never expose to water." "do not use in bathtub, " "strangulation risk," etc.

Re:Dark Fiber

[p.rican]

(some have redundent lines that are used only if there is a break or other pointless reasons)

Yeah, that "redundancy" thing really is pointless.

Asshat.