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Wait, there's an undersea cable from NZ to Singapore to the Suez Canal? How many of these are in the world? The only ones I knew where UK to US.
by fnwx17 9y ago
Wait, there's an undersea cable from NZ to Singapore to the Suez Canal? How many of these are in the world?
The only ones I knew where UK to US.
- simonh 9y agoEnjoy. https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ Per Isostatic's point, Ive not worked with satellite comms but did work on tracing financial transaction links all over the world. It al went by cable and I remember having the conversations about why we didn't use satellites. The latencies are terrible. In yet another life I spent some time working in Saudi Arabia, the compound had a satellite internet connection and it was terrible. The bandwidth itself was fine, but the delay between clicking something and getting a response was painful. The main problem is that most current satellite communications goes to geosynchronous birds that are a long way out from earth. The low earth orbit constellations companies like SpaceX are working on should mostly avoid the latency issues because the hop up to the satellite and back down again should be only a couple of hundred klicks instead of the 35,000 km plus, about three earth diameters, out to GTO.
- shinners 9y agoThat's pretty cool. Never knew they're were so many. Thanks for sharing this.
- hycaria 9y agoIt's even crazier when you know their size, yet they still manage to find them in a whole ocean and to grab the repeaters for maintenance.
- mxuribe 9y agoI've heard this elsewhere too...but it still boggles my mind that in this day and age, after an airliner crashes in the ocean, it is so often difficult to find.