Talking About Internet For Beginner (3)
Hello my friends, yesterday we talked much about how binary get into radio wave, Internet Service Provider (ISP), and some other thing related to how the internet connect to users.
Now in this article I will talk about the cable highway, and I think this is the last topic of the internet for beginner I write here.
What’s the cable highway?
That's where the cables go from the factory down to the dock. The company we're gonna go see, SubCom, is one of the top four submarine cable providers in the world.
There's the ship. This is the SubCom Decisive cable installation and maintenance vessel. It's 139 meters long, which is about 450 feet. The engineering and material science at work here are incredibly complex. But the basic process is actually really simple. Light goes in on one side of the ocean and comes out on the other.
So, as the Decisive moves across the ocean, the internet cable is gonna come out the back and be laid down behind it. And sometimes it's gonna be buried in the ocean floor by that machine right there. But most of the time it's just gonna lay there on the bottom of the ocean.
So, these are the two types of cable that we have the two basic types.This oneis called lightweight cable. That's the one that we would use in the middle of the ocean. And then this piece is the stuff that we use And the cable is engineered to be super strong in a lot of ways, but it is also very delicate in a lot of other ways.
The wires that carry the light waves themselves are typically made of fiberglass, literally just a continuous strand of glass about the size of a human hair. Why is it that there are too many fibers?
We're working on trying to put more fibers inside the cable to get more data information than what we already have. That's the cable tank. We got the pipe. Work is over. What we're doing is we're loading it into the tank in a continuous spool, right? Is it, like, 10 tons, 50 tons?
Oh, we're loading ten tons in a day. Oh, my God. Cool. It's gonna end up being about 60 days of plowing. 70 days total to prepare and install it. Okay, on the highway you have two minutes until cable starts. What do you want? What blows me away is just how much hard physical labor is required to make the internet work.
The craziest thing is that this cable is one of about 400 exactly like it that create a web around the Earth. We're just gonna lay down the undersea cables of the internet so hat we can see where they go. It can go to Africa, and it also can be a part of Europe. I love the on that goes across the ocean. You guys wanna see what the internet actually looks like?
Yeah, totally do. That's crazy. There's, like, all this metal in here. It seems like a shark could take a bite out of that pretty easily. I was gonna say the same thing. I'm so happy you said that. Does that happen? Yes.
My friends, we can take so many advantages from the internet technology. Now we feel it, we have done anything with internet and we earned much money with internet. And, we can read many articles here because of internet. You must agree with my statement. I know.
