Undersea Cable

[coilsinamotor]

lol thumbs up for made stock brokers XD

[KitFai91]

I appreciate my internet line now. It's so much hard work. But not my ISP, fuck those bitches.

[CISCOTREE]

fact : over than 80% of the bandwith used for porn transfers

[BrandonJay1983]

Sounds like this is life or death listening to the music..

[YouThankGod]

These people work for 3 weeks to gather that porn cable. All the cable will serve is porn and a bunch of kids who play multiplayer of world of warcraft.

[tedpidau]

"The fiber is impossibly small, the width of a human hair."

I don't think "impossible" means what you think it means.

[tedpidau]

@Yurious1 The latency in sending signals via satellite makes them much less useful than undersea fiber-optic cables. I think capacity is another big concern, the bandwidth of a single strand of fiber is so high.

[lilsm555]

Im glad terrorist are too stupid to ever figure out that theres a cable running on the ocean floor lol

[theculchie]

How much of that cable is used by porn?

[azharbinhafiz]

india or france again?

[shoney]

the spooling job seems so tedious

[Fhajad]

@RhinoSanderson Not that specific cable, but they do have fiber to the home service in areas. Verizon's FiOS does it is to name one.

Source: I work for an ISP that does fiber to the home service.

[qtonic]

Was this Discovery 'Kids'? The subject was fascinating, but the narration was pathetic. Why I can't stand to watch TV

[simpsonstewie]

can i get one of these cables to service my home?

[MisterB2010]

That was really interesting, I am a fibre-optic engineer of 15 years in the UK, always been fascinated with this side of things as always worked on underground or national grid overhead cables. Does anyone know who Alcatel use in the UK for this sort of work?

[giraudpierre2]

@MisterB2010

Hi,

I work on those ships for 2yrs an half now as cable tester. We're mostly French and few of British come sometimes. We're a team around 15 people working on different Alcatel cables projects and we are all subcontractors.

Hope this could help you!

[asas2jh]

Great upload mate!

[STFUNOWlol]

This is just mind boggling...

[myso2008]

all indians ?

[GanEdenAustralia]

Took British and french jobs.

[nibortheyak]

Interesting video

[dnave21]

cool

[n310ea]

They say the sea level is rising, probably because there's so many cables running under the sea. :D

[saidder]

Haha. What tools gave this a thumbs down?

[n310ea]

I don't know, what's the difference? the thumbs down has no reflection on anything, as long as the comment is there.

[dnave21]

haha

[rolfen]

Current cables have a capacity of several TeraBits/second. (over a million times faster than an average DSL connection). And they keep getting faster.

I know most of this stuff but im surprised they would load the cable by hand (3 weeks...). Id think they would build a robot or machine for this task.

Also didnt know that relays weight half a ton.

[dnave21]

i always thought thay run wireless over microwaves

[angrysausage123]

Really? I live very far from an exchange in a remote town with limited internet services compared to other places in Australia, but the only times I have to wait for it to buffer is when there's a lot of interference (Kununurra has record amounts of lightning).

[ryaneGT]

All this to lay a single cable? Can they not bundle cables and save money on laying???

[emarcelobs]

No need to bundle optical cables. Every FO cable can hava tens or hundreds of fibers. So, if you need more fibers, it´s just build a larger cable. After all, you´ll still have a single cable, much easyer to pull.

[ryaneGT]

ah. thanks for the clarification. that makes a lot more sense. the video suggested that they shield a single fiber per cable - which would be absurd.

[preluded]

don't get crazy, for long distances it's more likely you will have 6-8 pair of fiber, since it all has to be repeated it's quite costly to add additional pairs.

[jipasd]

3 weeks to fill the tanks? :O Seems surprisingly inpractical..

[glianx]

i hope the cost of 3mbps connection will be cheaper...

[michaliscon]

I WILL WATCH PORN THROUGH THAT CABLE

[yogods]

jajaja

[andyjk10]

waooh i love this technology. and guess what guys we didnt have optic fibre in africa and its just on its way and we will now have some fast internet connections, im on 128 and it took me like 15 minutes to wait for this clip to finish ouch!!! long live optic fibre

[angrysausage123]

15 minutes, I didn't think it would be that bad.

[OoLaLaFrenchGirl]

Fascinating!

[sunnetmedia]

wow i using only 60kilo bits

there 1000+ mb s

[slayertje]

im watching now by thad cables:P

[groovdafied]

I hope they don't get tangled at the titanic....

[sheepwshotguns]

yikes! that is one massive undertaking

[carbine23]

^ you said it right

[Drmachin]

Haaa there is my bandwith.