Re: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort

["D.H. van der Woude" <dirkvanderwoude () gmail com>]

On 1/16/07, Ingo Flaschberger <if () xip at> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nice flash animation from alcatel how submarine cables get laid and
> repaired:
> http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/submarine/products/marine/index.htm
>
> bye,
>         ingo


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?

grtz
d




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