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Submarine cable resilience

Submarine cable resilience

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Comments (32)

  • andrewrn
    I work on autonomous submarines that image the seafloor, and let me tell you it is very hard to engineer deep ocean systems. Just operationally, testing things in rolling waves is a brutal job. Arguably at parity with space as an engineering design environment.
  • alexpotato
    I worked for an L1 blockchain for a couple years and while the term "decentralized" is bandied about a bit too much, reading articles like this does underscore how vulnerable global traffic is.e.g. some EVM chains have a majority of "stake" in either one country or several adjacent countries (particularly in Asia). A cable cut there, which the article points out has happened, can lead to the blockchain getting cut off or even halting.
  • pchristensen
    If you care at all about this, you'll love Neal Stephenson's long article Mother Earth, Motherboard: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
  • konschubert
    Ah, the “unusually unlucky” cables serving Taiwan and in the Baltics.Like statistically impossibly unlucky.
  • jgrahamc
    I have been trying, and failing, to buy a cross section of a submarine cable. I'd love one as an art piece for my house.
  • hermitcrab
    My son's school computing teacher was convinced that these oceanic communication cables float on the surface - to the extent they had a bit argument about it in class. I'm not sure how the teacher thought ships navigated around them.
  • wuliwong
    Underwater cables have been one of the more awe inspiring things for me. I know nothing about them but they seem SO crazy and yet we have them running all across the oceans. .·°՞( ̑ ᗜ ̑ )՞°·.
  • Razengan
    How practical would be a mesh of satellites shooting lasers at each other, compared to undersea fiber-optic cables?Alternatively, is there a wavelength of light to which water is completely transparent? Can we shoot lasers of that frequency through open water instead of through cables?Maybe something that could be mounted on blue whales?
  • ortusdux
    Reminds me of the Tom Scott video on the cable singe that leverages the moiré effect:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99_h30swtM