RE: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

["Neil J. McRae" <neil () domino org>]

Really? What cable is that?!

-----Original Message-----
From: Rubens Kuhl Jr. <rubensk () gmail com>
Sent: 02 February 2008 11:33
To: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption


> "NEW YORK (AP) -- The lines that tie the globe together by carrying
> phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch thick
> where they lie on the ocean floor."

And AFAIK not all kilometers of cables lie on the ocean floor; if the
ocean has high depth on a given part of the cable route, the cable
simply floats on the water on that run. It's just a matter of having
enough pressure to lift it up.



Rubens