I am amazed that the undersea cable is not so thick at all. I was expecting a huge tub of cable. Just thinking about that and the amount of data we can equip across continents in less than 200ms is just incredible.
Is there a documentary on deep sea/undersea cable system? I am really interested in how they deploy the cables across the ocean. Have a ship sail across the ocean and start laying the cable down?
I can't seem to find it at the moment but ISTR watching a video (can't recall if it was actually a "documentary" or just some PR thing they put together) that Hibernia Atlantic put out. That may give you a starting point for finding one.
Fun fact. If you read the book The Victorian Internet, there's an interesting anecdote where a pioneer of the telegraph had a flawed theory that the thinner the cross-Atlantic copper wire, the better the transmission signal.
Is there a documentary on deep sea/undersea cable system? I am really interested in how they deploy the cables across the ocean. Have a ship sail across the ocean and start laying the cable down?