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Are there any good links about ‘landing stations’?

mlacks 7y ago
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
NeedMoreTea 7y ago
One of my more ancient bookmarks: http://atlantic-cable.com http://atlantic-cable.com Mainly history of the first transatlantic link, but also lots on Widemouth Bay and Porthcurno - the two landing stations. Widemouth Bay is the still active one with a GCHQ intercept nearby.
robbiet480 7y ago
Tom Scott had a pretty good video about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl2mQ2HiJZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl2mQ2HiJZc Minor correction: Tom Scott's video is great, but I was actually thinking of Motherboard's video which talks about modern undersea cables: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMAThVcqzuk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMAThVcqzuk
niftich 7y ago
Cryptome is a classic source on topics like this [1]. As for what a landing station looks from the inside, Ars Technica had an excellent series [2] on submarine cables in 2016. [1] http://cryptome.org/eyeball/cable/cable-eyeball.htm http://cryptome.org/eyeball/cable/cable-eyeball.htm [2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/how-the-internet-works-submarine-cables-data-centres-last-mile/3/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/how-t...
programd 7y ago
Tangentially related is this classic long form piece by Neal Stephenson from a 1996 editon of Wired "chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth". A great bit of recent transoceanic cable history. https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
- wrycoder 7y ago
  And this piece served as his source research for the fiberoptic cable network portion of the plotline in Stephenson’s novel, Cryptonomicon.
ohum 7y ago
https://outline.com/R7vGvk https://outline.com/R7vGvk is an outline version of the very good (from 1996...) Wired article, "Mother Board Mother Earth" https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

One of my more ancient bookmarks: http://atlantic-cable.com http://atlantic-cable.com Mainly history of the first transatlantic link, but also lots on Widemouth Bay and Porthcurno - the two landing stations. Widemouth Bay is the still active one with a GCHQ intercept nearby.

robbiet480 7y ago

Tom Scott had a pretty good video about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl2mQ2HiJZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl2mQ2HiJZc Minor correction: Tom Scott's video is great, but I was actually thinking of Motherboard's video which talks about modern undersea cables: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMAThVcqzuk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMAThVcqzuk

niftich 7y ago

Cryptome is a classic source on topics like this [1]. As for what a landing station looks from the inside, Ars Technica had an excellent series [2] on submarine cables in 2016. [1] http://cryptome.org/eyeball/cable/cable-eyeball.htm http://cryptome.org/eyeball/cable/cable-eyeball.htm [2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/how-the-internet-works-submarine-cables-data-centres-last-mile/3/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/how-t...

programd 7y ago

Tangentially related is this classic long form piece by Neal Stephenson from a 1996 editon of Wired "chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth". A great bit of recent transoceanic cable history. https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

wrycoder 7y ago
And this piece served as his source research for the fiberoptic cable network portion of the plotline in Stephenson’s novel, Cryptonomicon.

ohum 7y ago

https://outline.com/R7vGvk https://outline.com/R7vGvk is an outline version of the very good (from 1996...) Wired article, "Mother Board Mother Earth" https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/