Re: are underwater routers a thing?

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

John's probably seen this but  I think it addresses power on cables and
branching nodes (which are just optical /roadm devices)

https://youtu.be/H9R4tznCNB0


On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 22:40 John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:

> It appears that Jerry Cloe <jerry () jtcloe net> said:
> > -=-=-=-=-=-
> >
> > it look like it was completely at sea, but it would kind of make sense
> > to leave them at sea if you could put a router there.
> >
> > First thing that comes to mind is power, how would you power them?
>
> Undersea cables have had power for repeaters since TAT-1 in 1956.  I
> think we can consider that to be a solved problem.
>
> R's,
> John