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Re: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi () mail r-bonomi com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:21:07 -0600 (CST)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:04:17 +0100 From: "D.H. van der Woude" <dirkvanderwoude () gmail com> To: NANOG () merit edu Subject: Re: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort Thanks for the link, which brought me to the page http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/submarine/vessels/index.htm where their vessels are decribed. Their specs bring up something (at to least to me) of interest. The popular story is always "in the 90-ties so much submarine (trans-Atlantic & -Pacific fiber was laid that it will take decades to fill it up. And the bust of 2000 seemed proof enough. However, from the specs of Alcatel's 5 vessels one learns that 4 of them are effectively from 2002 (!). So did Alcatel some anti-cyclic investing - or did they know more than others?
1) Any idea how long it takes to manufacture one of those vessels? Any idea how long in advance of start of manufacture that the 'firm order' had to be placed? 2) Were they additions to Alcatel's fleet, or _replacements_? 3) With all that additional cable 'in place', the amount of maintenance required goes up proportionately.
Current thread:
- Re: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort, (continued)
- Re: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort Jim Segrave (Jan 16)
- Re: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort Ingo Flaschberger (Jan 16)
- Re: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort D.H. van der Woude (Jan 16)
- Repeated packet loss on AT&T Donald Stahl (Jan 16)
- Re: Repeated packet loss on AT&T Matthew Crocker (Jan 16)
- Re: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort Ingo Flaschberger (Jan 16)
- Re: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort Joel Jaeggli (Jan 16)
- Re: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort Robert E. Seastrom (Jan 16)
- Re: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort Marshall Eubanks (Jan 16)
- RE: Pac Rim Cable Damage Defies Repair [was: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort] Frank Bulk (Jan 17)
- RE: Pac Rim Cable Damage Defies Repair [was: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort] Sean Donelan (Jan 17)
- Re: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort Jim Segrave (Jan 16)