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Yes, there is fiber infrastructure in the Channel Tunnel [0]. I'm pretty sure that while any one good link is vastly better than zero links, no one link is suf
by toss1 2y ago
Yes, there is fiber infrastructure in the Channel Tunnel [0]. I'm pretty sure that while any one good link is vastly better than zero links, no one link is sufficient to carry all traffic from/to the British Isles?
[0] https://www.colt.net/resources/colt-successfully-completes-the-deployment-of-fibre-network-infrastructure-along-the-channel-tunnel-seamlessly-connecting-london-and-paris/ https://www.colt.net/resources/colt-successfully-completes-t...
- detritus 2y agoIf you're routing through the Chunnel, I suspect you could fit at least two seperate links.
- toss1 2y agook, so a quick check of submarine cable maps shows around two dozen from England across the channel (ignoring those to the Nordics and North America) Would a pair of cable sets replace all of that? That's a lot of data, routing, and redundancy gone. Sure, if they had to try to make it work, they would. But you seem to be suggesting that because there's a couple of cables in the tunnel, it's OK if the undersea links all get cut by RU/China? If so, WTAF?; you need to explain that