Cables On The Ocean Floor
On july 29 1858 two steam powered battleships met in the middle of the atlantic ocean.
Cables on the ocean floor. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried telegraphy traffic establishing the first instant telecommunications links between continents such as the first transatlantic telegraph cable which became. 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. When finished the cables will end up the size of a. It just seems self evident that space would be a better way to virtually wire the internet than our current method of running really long cables slash shark buffets along 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.