Oceanography
Fiber optic cable laying system in the world's deepest abyss
Haiwei GD11000 fiber optic cable winch system can deploy cables at a maximum depth of more than 11,000m.
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New technology
Create clothes and bags that can charge phones
Chinese scientists have just introduced a type of bag and fabric that can charge phones extremely conveniently.
Computer science
How Google, Facebook put thousands of miles of fiber optic cable under the sea floor?
The process of completing an undersea cable route can take up to several years, using a dedicated cable laying vessel with a pre-explored route.
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Shark injustice when broken fiber optic cable
In July 1858, the two ships met in the middle of the Atlantic. Each ship carries a marine cable only 1.5 cm thick. The two cables were welded together in the middle of t…
Computer science
Japan has successfully tested fiber optic cable 100 times faster than the current Internet
The Network Systems Research Institute of the Japan Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has successfully developed and tested fiber optic cable…
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Why do sharks like to bite sea cable?
At 5:45 am, the AAG submarine cable route continued to have trouble affecting the international internet connection.
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How are marine optical cables welded?
According to Wikipedia, fiber optic cables are a type of telecommunications cable made of glass or plastic, using light to transmit signals.
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How are APG and AAG cables different?
Why is the introduction of APG cable the good news for the network community in the whole region? And what is the difference between this AAG and APG cable?
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10 facts about transatlantic network cables
Up to 99% of international data transmitted by wires at the bottom of the ocean is called an underground communication cable.
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3 mistakes about science that everyone has made you surprised
Your parents, friends, siblings, and other relatives, most certainly still have many misconceptions about science, space or physics.
Oceanography
The reason the shark likes to bite the optical cable
Sharks often bite the fiber cable under the seabed attracted by electric current in the cable or curious about strange objects.
Space science
Develop new methods to look deeper into space
Australian researchers have recently developed a method that allows scientists to look deeper into space.
Environment
Don't be indifferent to climate change, it will make you lose your internet connection in the near future
Today, the internet has gradually become an important factor in human life, even, it is an essential need like food and drink.
Videos
Video: 6,400km undersea fiber network connecting the two continents
Microsoft, Facebook and Spanish telecommunications group Telxius completed an undersea fiber optic network with speeds of up to 160 terabits per second.
Videos
Video: The fiber optic network is intertwined on the ocean floor
The fiber optic system connected to the Internet under the seabed has a total length of 885,000 km, enough to run 22 round the Earth.