Undersea fiber optics

Posted on January 17th, 2009


Check out this Discovery Channel episode.

One of Tyco Telecommunications Reliant Class fleet ships, Cable ship Tyco Resolute was laying a new fibre optic cable to connect Costa Rica. Lay new cable under the sea floor and cut and splice the PAC1 undersea cable.  West side connecting North to South America

http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/submarine/refs/World_Map_2007_LR.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_submarine_communications_cables

On a related note Google and youtube traffic to Asia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(submarine_cable)

Mission critical work just like SevenL.