1.\nInstallation \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Installations\nof sea floor fibre optic cables are not only a slow and tedious\nprocess, but they are also expensive. These installations are more\nthan just a matter of laying cables as the boats move along a these\ncables run for hundreds of thousands of miles at the bottom of the\nocean which can be so deep that if we were to put Mount Everest in\nsome of these places, it would be entirely submerged. These cables\nare also required to be laid on flat surfaces for the most part and\nthus, cable layers have to take precautionary measures to avoid coral\nreefs, sunken ships, ecological spheres and any other obstructions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2.\nSharks<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sharks are attracted to these cables and scientists and researchers have yet to figure out exactly why. Due to this reason, these cables vary in diameter and have different protective shielding as in some areas where sharks commonly chew up the internet; these cables are \u2018shark proofed\u2019. In Source (2): http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/d-brief\/2014\/08\/15\/sharks-chomping-underwater-fiber-optic-cables\/#.XH6Ht6CE6po<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3.\nHuman Generated Disruptions<\/p>\n\n\n\n As\nvulnerable as these cables are on land when a bulldozer accidently\ndigs up these cables causing an Internet black out over a vast\ngeographical area, the same happens on the seabed when ship anchors,\ntrawlers and submarines accidently snag these cables which could\ndisrupt the internet for the entire continent. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.\nSpying<\/p>\n\n\n\n Underwater\ntransmission cables are \u2018hotspots\u2019 for spying on your neighbour.\nThe United States being the biggest culprits, practically tapped most\nof these cables which was only found out after the Snowden incident.\nSince then, countries have started to consider their options of\nlaying separate seafloor cables that avoid intertwining with American\ncables and at the same time avoid using American companies or\ncompanies that have links to American contractors to stay out of the\nAmerican \u2018convenient spying zone\u2019. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5.\nWhy cables when we have satellites?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well,\nfor one, most people think that satellites are fast and efficient and\ncables are draggy and cumbersome and unreliable when in actual fact\nthe opposite is true. Cables especially Fibre Optics, are able to\nsend and receive data at almost the speed of light, whilst satellite\ntransmission suffers from bit-loss and latency issues. Now you are\nprobably wondering what bit-loss and latency is, well to put it\nsimply, latency is the delay that occurs during transmission which\nmeans that it takes longer for data to travel from one node to\nanother. Bit-loss on the other hand is basically \u2018losing data\u2019 in\na very tiny amount which would corrupt the entire data packet. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, for one, most people think that satellites are fast and efficient and cables are draggy and cumbersome and unreliable when in actual fact the opposite is true. Cables especially Fibre Optics, are able to send and receive data at almost the speed of light, whilst satellite transmission suffers from bit-loss and latency issues. Now you are probably wondering what bit-loss and latency 1. Installation Installations of sea floor fibre optic cables are not only a slow and tedious process, but they are also expensive. These installations are more than just a matter of laying cables as the boats move along a these cables run for hundreds of thousands of miles at the bottom of the ocean which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-topics","category-internet-backbone-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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