Being a network geek I’m naturally interested in submarine (sometimes called underwater or undersea) cables used to make internet and voice connections across oceans. I recently had the opportunity to spend a brief amount of time researching these and found a few useful sites.
The Eyeball-series website has two pages, one describing cables under the Atlantic Ocean and another for cables under the Pacific Ocean. They list origination and termination points of cables along with maps indicating roughly where they cross.
The International Submarine Cable Protection Committee has several interesting pages including a narrative history of submarine cables, timeline of submarine cables and a database of cables which did and do exist among others.
The Smithsonian Institute has an online exhibition about submarine cables and has arranged for the 1959 book The Atlantic Cable by Bern Dibner to be readable online.
Finally, Alcatel/Lucent has some animations showing the laying of a submarine cable and the repair of a submarine cable.
Comments are closed.