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Those five cables are the ‘Transatlantic Submarine Cables Reaching Land.’
These VSNL submarine telecommunications cables extend 8,037.4 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Capable of transmitting over 60 million simultaneous voice conversations, these underwater fiber-optic cables stretch from Saunton Sands in the United Kingdom to the coast of New Jersey. The cables run below ground and emerge directly into the VSNL International headquarters, where signals are amplified and split into distinctive wavelengths enabling transatlantic phone calls and internet transmissions.
via Kottke.
Cool!
Wow, cheap fence for such long and expensive cables.
Even in a datacenter the fence is bigger, thicker for much cheaper lines