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for some reason, i thought that satellite communications linked the continents. of course, this would mean that all inter-continental traffic would be very latent--and it's not. i've never reconciled these thoughts until now.

submarine communication cables carry over 99% of all traffic.

for examples of such links, see:
hibernia atlantic
apollo

makes me want to learn how to scuba dive so i can go cut some cables

Duh. Don't you remember last year when two of the cables connecting the middle east were severed?

My brother has actually been inside one of the cable junction rooms in NYC. CRAZY HIGH VOLTAGE.

Actually if you are in NYC check out the two "ghost" buildings. AT&T built these two buildings to house the cross continental interconnects way back in like cold war times. They are massive windowless, lightless skyscrapers. Only discernible features are massive vents. No running lights at all on the buildings ... in theory to make them hard to bomb at night.

Very cool stuff.

What? RFC2549 isn't used anymore ...?

cool nny

larz how did you even get onto this?

> larz how did you even get onto this?

http://www.verneglobal.com/icelandic_advantag … nectivity/

Check out this companies install... They did a pretty good job blogging over the course of the whole process with some pretty cool pictures along the way. http://www.pipeinternational.com/

Actually during the Haiti disaster they were attempting to run a 10 gig fiber line from costa rica to haiti using a donated cable layer ship. Dunno if they did it.