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Laying Fiber Optic Under Sea Cable

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  • The video is rather old. Modern cable systems use optical amplifiers, there are no optical - electrial - optical conversion. Repeater type systems are no longer in service. Modern sytsems typically use 4 or 8 fibre pairs, each fiber pair supports multiple wavelengths of light (DWDM) - for instance a 4 FP could support 96 x 10Gb wavelengths x 4 FP's giving a total of 3.84TB. Also more recently manufactures are introducing 40Gbp wavelengths and in the near future 100gb wavelengths will be appear.

  • What would power the repeaters? are thay battery powered?

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  • @Xoujiro that's just a beach-side demo to show you what it does underwater

  • the technology we have is ridiculous, and it's only getting mower advanced. very, very fast.

    here in the middle of the US, i can send data to a computer in the UK in well under 150 milliseconds. not only that, but i can transfer several megabytes per second to it without giving it a second thought.

    we've gone from the 8088 CPU in 1979, to being able to buy close to 4 GHz six-core CPUs. so, what about in another 30 years? :o

  • do they put it under the deep seabed or just at the beachside?

  • Nowadays they have converters that just use light to amplify the signal again, which is harder to intrude by hackers etc.

  • @LURTSCH MM, are you serious? Submarine cables are by nature layed for LONG distance while MM fiber is for VERY VERY SHORT distances.

  • its because dispersive effects are only evident in coper conductors that are significantly large in length.

  • I wonder how many strands are in that cable. Is there even an indicator in the video that shows whether it's MM or SM?

  • How far man has come.

  • It can reach 1gbps. otherwise it would be a complete waste, why would they bother using fibre if it doesnt reach insane speeds? they might as well use cable.

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