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A repeater on the ocean floor? Do they run power cables to it alongside the data all the way from the coast?
by dataflow 4y ago
A repeater on the ocean floor? Do they run power cables to it alongside the data all the way from the coast?
- detaro 4y agoYes, commonly there are high-voltage cables in there. Nowadays, for shorter runs (that are still long enough to need repeaters) there are also purely optical repeaters where instead separate fiber strands deliver light from a pump laser.