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To: TechMkt who wrote (11519)	5/28/2001 7:05:35 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15615

Good find, Fez. Thanks. For those who have not yet read the following, compare to another classic on the topic of laying submarine cables from the Wired web site: "Mother Earth Mother Board" By Neal Stephenson [FAC: Note this is a 56-page web-based article that has the option for a single click print function.] "In which the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, acquainting himself with the customs and dialects of the exotic Manhole Villagers of Thailand, the U-Turn Tunnelers of the Nile Delta, the Cable Nomads of Lan tao Island, the Slack Control Wizards of Chelmsford, the Subterranean Ex-Telegraphers of Cornwall, and other previously unknown and unchronicled folk; also, biographical sketches of the two long-dead Supreme Ninja Hacker Mage Lords of global telecommunications, and other material pertaining to the business and technology of Undersea Fiber-Optic Cables, as well as an account of the laying of the longest wire on Earth, which should not be without interest to the readers of Wired." wired.com FAC ps - oops, I just came across the reference to the wired article in one of the last footnotes of the you you posted... oh well...

To: TechMkt who wrote (11519)	5/29/2001 10:09:16 AM
From: BWAC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15615

From your Undersea Cables 101 article, did you notice this tidbit about capacity on previous systems and the rate of fill? "Time to fill capacity When TAT-8 was planned the consortium estimated that it would take twelve years, or half the planned lifetime, for it to be filled. It entered service in 1988 and was full two years later. The TAT-12/13 cable system offered twenty times more capacity than TAT-8, and the consortium again estimated that twelve years would be needed before the capacity would be filled. The system entered service in 1996, the capacity is already subscribed for, and will surely all be in use by the end of 1998."