No thread on submarine cables is complete without a link to Neal Stephensons classic "Mother Earth Mother Board" article:<p><a href="https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/</a>
160Tbps on 8 fiber pairs is impressive. I wonder when we will get residential Tbit fiber, it should not be that far long into the future. Just think of the applications. In comparison a display cable "only" carriage a few Gbit of data per second.
Here's an overview of all submarine cables: <a href="https://www.submarinecablemap.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.submarinecablemap.com/</a>
> ... establishes a faster and stronger telecommunications link not only to Europe, but to the next billion internet users that will come from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.<p>I hate corporate PR so much for things like this. What's the point of talking about Asia? Data to/from Asia goes mostly trough the Pacific Ocean, not through Spain.
I think we'll some form of power link going from UK -> US during our lifetime, maybe via Iceland/Greenland so we can utilise the excess geothermal energy from Iceland.