Cables Cross The Ocean Floor

Now a technique described online in science this week promises to take advantage of more than 1 million kilometers of fiber optic cables that criss cross the ocean floors and carry the world s.

Cables cross the ocean floor. There they connected two ends of a 4 000 kilometer 2 500 mile long 1 5 centimeter 0 6 inch wide cable. After mid century coaxial cable came into use with amplifiers. The internet consists of tiny bits of code that move around the world traveling along wires as thin as a strand of hair strung across the ocean floor. Submarine cables are laid down by using specially modified ships that carry the submarine cable on board and slowly lay it out on the seabed as per the plans given by the cable operator.

Tend to cross into american borders and territorial water making wiretapping a breeze. A transatlantic telecommunications cable is a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the atlantic ocean to the other. In 1854 cyrus west field conceived the idea of the telegraph cable and secured a charter to lay a well insulated line across the floor of the atlantic ocean. On july 29 1858 two steam powered battleships met in the middle of the atlantic ocean.

A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. In the 19th and early 20th centuries each cable was a single wire.