submarine communications cable
Sign in to saveAlso known as under sea cable, under-sea cable, Submarine cable, submarine telecommunications cable, submarine cable system, underwater communications cable
long range communications device placed underwater, often intercontinental
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Vinony's link graph records 1,760 inbound references to submarine communications cable, and connects out to Information Age, bit and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin.
It sits within the topics Coastal construction, History of telecommunications and Source attribution.
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- Has part
- cable landing point
- Has use
- telecommunications
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- uses
- optical fiber
- Commons category
- Submarine communications cables
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- Category:Submarine communications cables
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- Template:Infobox submarine communications cable
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Encyclopedic overview
A cross section of the shore-end of a modern submarine communications cable. 1 – Polyethylene 2 – Mylar tape 3 – Stranded steel wires 4 – Aluminium water barrier 5 – Polycarbonate 6 – Copper or aluminium tube 7 – Petroleum jelly 8 – Optical fibers Submarine cables are laid using special cable layer ships, such as the modern René Descartes [fr], operated by Orange Marine.
A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the seabed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “submarine communications cable” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.