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Internet => Interesting Websites => Topic started by: Weaver on September 28, 2019, 09:32:13 PM

Title: Submarine cables
Post by: Weaver on September 28, 2019, 09:32:13 PM

This interactive map website is utterly fantastic; you can click on different undersea cables and identify names and owners, and you can click on nodes marked on them for information too

    https://www.submarinecablemap.com (https://www.submarinecablemap.com)

For example: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/submarine-cable/tampnet-offshore-foc-network (https://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/submarine-cable/tampnet-offshore-foc-network)

Title: Re: Submarine cables
Post by: burakkucat on September 28, 2019, 09:52:02 PM

Or one can see the BT Highlands & Islands submarine cable system (https://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/submarine-cable/bt-highlands-and-islands-submarine-cable-system).  ;)

Title: Re: Submarine cables
Post by: Weaver on September 28, 2019, 09:53:35 PM

I had not even spotted that ! I see they have grouped associated links into meaningful sets.

Amazing that there is a node here and there at off-shore oil-rig platforms. I suppose it makes sense as they really need the comms; and rf might be too iffy? Distances too great? I would think good comms is a safety / emergency feature too. And the staff working away from home must appreciate decent bandwidth a lot. There are quite a few people round here who work on oil rigs, so Janet tells me.

Title: Re: Submarine cables
Post by: burakkucat on September 28, 2019, 10:04:38 PM

Yes, it is a very useful resource.