How is the Internet connected?!

[spoon_]

Yes there are there was a brilliant show on discovery about the fibre optic cables connecting continents and how they are repaired.

Happen to remember the title?

[TAKTAK]

http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/subma...ap_2007_LR.pdf

Laying and repairing: http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/subma...rine/index.htm

[TAKTAK]

Yes there are there was a brilliant show on discovery about the fibre optic cables connecting continents and how they are repaired.

I think i must have watched the same thing, was it a few years ago and it spent alot of time showing the cables being loaded onto the drum and then loaded onto the ship?

Was a good watch if i remember rightly.

[watercooled]

Could it have been this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1JEuzBkOD8

[TAKTAK]

Could it have been this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1JEuzBkOD8

That's the one i'm thinking of, i remember the bloke walking around the drum keeping the cable in line

I don't remember the annoying voice over voice though :/

[watercooled]

They have different voice-overs depending on what country you're in. Looks like that video finishes half-way through the programme though...

[TAKTAK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptsNT...om=PL&index=15

That's better!

pity about the subtitles though and volume level

[watercooled]

Ah right it looks like it was on 'how do they do it' or something like that - I thought ~8 minutes was a bit short for a full programme.

Edit: Have a look at some of the other videos on the playlist with that one.

[Singh400]

Is there a nice looking version of these bandwidth maps that I could have professionally prinited and hung on my wall? I love them!

In answer to my own question...

http://www.infographics.tk/wp-conten...-cable-map.jpg
http://www.telegeography.com/maps/index.php

[Time Bandit]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel's 'vision' is often said to have been to create a high speed link between London and New York hence all the railways, bridges and tunnels and the S.S. Great Britain. After so many engineering triumphs Brunel's last great project, the Great Eastern (largest ship ever built at the time), was a bit of a disaster as a passenger liner.

Fittingly enough, bearing in mind Brunel's initial motivation, she was eventually converted into a cable laying vessel, and was responsible for the first telegraph cable to be laid across the Atlantic.