<- Hard dé e: 0.012466192245483 sec -> Shark Internet fears this time the victim of a shark well pulpit. Google has indeed admitted this week that it will invest in strengthening its submarine cables that provide Internet sharing between the European and Asian American continents. These facilities are essential to the proper functioning of the Internet, and will be equipped with a Kevlar coating to protect the incisions, reports the Slate site.
According to Tim Stronge, vice president of the research center. TeleGeography, 99% of intercontinental telephone and data were transmitted under the ocean in 2013 with about 250 connections, cables indeed avoid the loss of time caused by the round trip with a satellite. They are inevitably a geopolitical and economic issue.
More than € 185,000 repair
Among other Avalanches -marines trawling and deep-water sharks are now recognized as a real threat to these technological treasures. The Telegraph, which found a video of one of their attacks, said that sharks are believed to be the source of huge failures since the 1990s these large mammals would be attracted by the electromagnetic signals emanating from cables very similar to those of their usual prey.
Given the depth at which the pipes are installed at each attack, repair work costs about 250,000 dollars (186,500 euros). What motivate giant Google has about 160 000 km of submarine cables. On Tuesday, the American group and five Asian telecommunications groups have also welcomed an agreement for the construction of a new cable between Japan and the United States under the auspices of the Japanese NEC for development 2016 This service fiber optic cable called Faster, with a length of 9,000 km, designed to meet the growing demand for data transmission. It should provide a capacity of 60 terabits transferred per second by the first half of 2016, the largest ever placed on the long trans-Pacific route. An estimated 300 million total investment.
VIDEO. A submarine cable attacked by a shark
MAP. The network of submarine cables in the world
The map is regularly updated on the site Cablemap.info
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