How The Internet Travels Across Oceans

[@aries5591]

I think browsers like Chrome needs to update their animation when it comes to No Internet. Instead of dinosaurs, maybe use sharks that try to eat the internet cables.. underseas...

[@imdisturbeddd1625]

dinosaur game is og

[@alizafar909]

And maybe build a shark game instead

[@willingkevbro2805]

Baby shark do do do do do do Baby shark do do do do do do Baby shark do do do do do do Baby shark do do do do do do Baby Shark!

[@FlowHD]

dont you dare touch my dino game

[@computergig3622]

I work for google. Ok, we will implement that

[@halfduplexmedia6395]

I've worked as a Datacenter technician for over 10 years. Whenever I'm sitting with non-IT friends explaining this concept...they are mind blown. Makes me feel so much better about my job security.

[@chrisrosario6114]

Do you see Elon musks satellites as a threat?

[@Mi_Fa_Volare]

Hooow? One of the earliest fiber connections was between West Berlin and the rest of the Federal Republic of Germany.

[@justdoinit2378]

🤣🤣🤣

[@bltzcstrnx]

@@chrisrosario6114 yes and no, Starlink as of current still relies on fiber optic network. What it does is solving what called as last mile communication, which is the communication from ISPs point-of-presence to the customer premises. Also just as any other wireless communications it is prone to shared bandwidth. In which could have significant impact especially on ultra high density area such as city center.

[@CaptainGoodguySentientAI]

I’m glad to hear your pool of friends are idiots.

[@JavierMercedes]

"Cable is by far the cheapest and most efficient means of Yeeting vast packets of data over incredibly long distances" haha 😂

[@Sykdrone]

Lol

[@OzzyTheGiant]

FAT YEETS!

[@manishreza9918]

5:28

[@TheHerrMan]

it sounded so mainstream and collegiate. gonna have my kids sneak it into a paper for school and see what happens

[@luked4861]

I loved when i heard that lol

[@fishywtf]

The fact that large tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Meta control some of these cables shows just how much they run the digital world

[@AutomationToolsTest]

if u dig a little bit deeper, you'd also understand that even your local internet service provider are on it. example PH's PLDT

[@hsandev8972]

Well they are the ones funding this, in order to improve services.

[@ajmc3954]

no shit sherlock 😂

[@darealnellyb4794]

there’s not much they can do with it

[@HarkoretoDaBone-nf7ff]

what are you expecting.. joe blow to own a cable

[@georgethompson4912]

We never think about the infrastructure needed to have us all connected. Here’s a sentence you won’t hear every day. “My internet went down because it got bitten by a shark.” 😂😂😂

[@ikramyousuf]

well restarting the router not gonna solve that

[@LinkyParky]

Imagine kids/students telling their peers, the couldn't do online assignments due to shark bit off the internet 🤣

[@IroAppe]

If you are in America, then you only can read my comment that quickly because it went through these cables.

[@opensourcegeeks]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hsandev8972]

Well its more of a lag, alot of modern equipment can reroute traffic if it detects a malfunction, but the latency will go higher, since it has to redirect through more servers.

[@Narrowgaugefilms]

I heard a great story about tapping into undersea cables from a guy in the repeater business. Back before Gorbachev, the CIA was interested in a Soviet Navy cable near Vladivostok. They knew the cable existed, just not exactly where. Obviously poking around so deep inside Soviet waters was going to be hard to do without raising suspicion, so they needed a shortcut. Somebody said in a meeting "It's a cable just like any other cable: they don't want it damaged. We should look for 'No Anchorage' signs close to the coast." -sure enough! They found it this way.

[@Narrowgaugefilms]

Actually, this is common knowledge: if you do a little Googling something like "Vladivostock soviet navy cable cia" (or something like that), you can find the story for yourself. How it became common knowledge is eventually the Soviets got tipped off, and found the listening device. -Today it's displayed in a Russian museum!

[@Carolina-mw4po]

@Varun Mehra the new drug may be. Because some people actually are able to perfectly live without internet, but those who are addicted to it will get mad in its absence.

[@Carolina-mw4po]

@Varun Mehra as I said, there are people who can actually live completely offline. Me, for example, I'm pretty close to those, I'm in the middle as I only use internet to watch some videos from time to time. The rest of my life occurs as a completely offline thing. No social networks, no downloads or update needed, as my workstation (DAW, 3d animation, IDE for arduino robotics) all work offline, even my maps as HereWeGo are offline apps. Once downloaded (in an internet cafe) I don't need connection at home. I never updated my systems since years so far and I perfectly work everyday at no rest. Absolutely offline.

[@charlieinabox1164]

@@Carolina-mw4po I think you missed the point Varun was making. You may be able to survive as an individual without the internet but other services you use like public utilities, roads, telephony and much much more are all connected via the internet. Modern society collapses without it. Unless you are living on a farm stead that is completely off the grid you rely on the internet and the modern conveniences it bring with it.

[@elguirimadethis9239]

Operation Ivy Bells.

[@MegaTelefunken]

Hi, there is a relatively small mistake in geography( 0:38 timecode ). Black Sea is located next to the Caspian Sea on the left So the phase should be like: The relatively modest 300 kilometer Azerbaijan to Turkmenistan wire running under the Caspian Sea(NOT BLACK SEA)

[@Eziz98]

exactly what I was gonna comment

[@mrdimitroff]

Yep, he's got the correct continent so it's small in this context

[@lucarijoe8301]

I noticed that too and IMMEDIATELY scrolled to the comments

[@dalewilliams8001]

I'm surprised that I missed that. I'm tired. Thanks !!

[@coldcallerloopy]

I noticed immediately and scrolled through the comments to make sure if anybody else noticed lol

[@BU_IDo]

Good to see this because most people believe that they're using satellites or some other wireless technology when communication with friends and family in another country.

[@AmrZainAhmed]

Satellites are a hoax. They never exist.

[@brawldude2656]

We used to do that with some older system which used GPS messaging systems. The technology however was dropped and now everyone uses either landmine or just internet

[@ayushmittal9666]

I knew that there were optical cables running down the ocean . But I didn't knew about the mechanics and the hard work put behind these operations. Thanks for the video

[@handyandy6050]

Yep! There are ships around the world on standby 24/7 to locate and repair cable faults / breaks,

[@vectorsahel5420]

looks like I have been living under a rock, I thought we all communicated through the internet by radio waves or something not underwater cables lol

[@MrMcSnuffyFluffy]

So you just thought they were put out there by a wizard?

[@ayushmittal9666]

@@MrMcSnuffyFluffy maybe if you believe in wizards and I think modern science is not less than some sort of wizardry

[@diegobermudez8102]

@@MrMcSnuffyFluffy I did.

[@SebConte202]

Wow, this is something you never really think about while using the internet. It's amazing to see how much work goes into it and how complicated it is!

[@icydrip5121]

its completely mind blowing

[@manzidelick2752]

@peacenow42you’re not optimistic about anything at all

[@zrh0]

The sea between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan is the Caspian Sea not the Black Sea. 0:30

[@jacobreuter]

@K B cuz that accent is American 😂 whatever you are, write that down in a condescending tone first 💀

[@ghost-gh5ce]

just came to the comments to say this , thank you

[@MikhailKolodin]

Exactly. The Caspian sea.

[@mirceahugyecz1749]

ACTUALLY IT'S A LAKE, NOT A SEA ....THE WORLD LARGEST LAKE !!!

[@switch5332]

@@mirceahugyecz1749 We know………But it’s not called the Caspian Lake

[@Ransomed77]

It boggles the mind that "small" cables laid hundreds of feet on the sea floor can carry such vast amounts of data. That such cables can even endure the distance, and harsh environment of currents, saltwater, and apparently tech hungry sharks is a testimony to the engineers and builders. The world has come along way since the first under sea cable of the mid 1800's! My hat is off to all those with the vision and ability to make our tech world a reality!

[@crazyyoutuberguy]

hundreds of feet?, a few thousand meters!!

[@Ransomed77]

@@crazyyoutuberguy thousands of meters? Try hundreds of thousands of CMs and millions of MMs!

[@jordyb57]

Are we sure they always sit on the sea floor and not suspended in some way?

[@anthonyduncalf-uk]

3000 miles from the USA to the UK. It's incredible how it all works .

[@Ransomed77]

@@anthonyduncalf-uk And to think the first cable transatlantic cable was laid in 1855 with "reliable service" by 1866.

[@Supermath101]

The 100 Gbps turning soon to 400 Gbps is actually per wavelength, meaning the overall bandwidth can be up to 80x that. Plus, that is only if you use one fiber strand. These fiber cables should have dozens of strands of fiber, thus multiplying the amount of bandwidth even more.

[@ceemontana5877]

Exactly. These cables also have self-healing measures/materials that often don't require human assistance to stay operational.

[@jonathansaravanan]

And I get 20 Mbps at my house…

[@mattmatyas9605]

Thank you for clearing that up I knew something was wrong about that figure

[@jokerash]

@Nom Flo Not quite, at my home I have 10Gbps FTTH technology for 15$ per month. That's in Romania by the way.

[@callitagain]

Do we know if the repeaters are passive? I'm guessing they should be so so that transceivers on either end is that's required for an "upgrade" both now and into the future. Or perhaps each repeater can be programmed? (doubt it as super $)

[@Nick_88888]

0:37 , that is the Caspian sea. The Black sea is on the left of the Caspian sea and it covers Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Ukraine

[@jknrawle]

and Georgia!

[@pcow9100]

The amount of things that need to occur at all times to sustain our way of life that no one has any idea about is astounding.

[@rasta77-x7o]

Watch the social media addicts shrivel up and die in a Global internet outage.

[@donbolillo3812]

also, the more complex a system is, the more vulnerable it is to failure

[@dundonrl]

I just tested my 1 gig fiber connection with Tokyo and Moscow, it's amazing how simple it is to receive and send data thousands of km away, over those undersea cables!

[@iancharlton678]

Now you realise that “in the cloud” actually means “under water”…… my maternal family were all Cable & Wireless people, trotting about the globe from one cable hub to another….. a cousin followed in the tradition, training at Porthcurno Valley in Cornwall, where the cables came ashore and the Cable & Wireless Engineering College. The small cable hut still stands at the head of the beach and you can visit the Telegraph Museum nearby. I remember marvelling at seeing a cable that terminated in a hut on a Cornish beach, knowing the other end was in India 🙂

[@agoogleuser9102]

Cool but I don’t remember asking

[@SILOPshuvambanerjee]

Love from India

[@codingvio7383]

Not really, the cables aren't really data centers. They are more like just a means of transporting the data. The data centers are still on land somewhere.

[@zeusbolt9712]

@@agoogleuser9102 you never asked plus stop being rude man.

[@bmwboylauder5530]

So this co insides that the earth is flat. Because there are no satalites

[@MrEG3G]

Never knew how real my red stone contraptions were in Minecraft until I heard they really use repeaters I’ve basically been a electrician and a constructor

[@MrVaDelux]

Lol can u elaborate?

[@Neon-ws8er]

@@MrVaDelux what do you want him to elaborate on? Pretty straightforward.

[@ThatFunnyPlace]

Agreed. I'm gonna take my redstone knowledge and build me a elevator by my garage

[@Xaminn]

@@Neon-ws8er Actually, no.

[@maciektheguywithaweirdname]

@@MrVaDelux there’s a material in a game Minecraft named redstone. It’s basically a simplified version of electrical wires with which you can make simple mechanisms like automatic doors, farms, trapdoors, storages and other things (some madlads made even simple computers). Redstone has a certain amount of power that diminishes with every block. If you’re making a longer redstone trail you have to put repeaters every dozen blocks to amplify that power again. Similar thing was used in the video and that’s why he’s making a reference to it. Hope it helped!

[@GD15555]

4:44 a little duck tape will never hurt. Even underwater. Not a word about the first pioneer Cyrus West Field

[@doctorpanigrahi9975]

There's nothing that a duct tape can't fix.

[@arc8218]

@@doctorpanigrahi9975 broken heart

[@justsomemayo6108]

Duck tape

[@avcomth]

Even more fascinating is how everyone got involved with these cable laying projects. First, a large entity (telecom company/government) makes plan for the cable route, beginning with their home country, then they propose the plan to member nations along the way, these members would eagerly jump in to join the project by helping to pay for them. This is because every country doesn't want to miss the bandwagon of data connectivity, so they join as many cable projects as there is in their locations.

[@yingle6027]

Sharks like "damn this eel is hard as hell."

[@davidbenjesse5978]

I worked for a company that designed and produced "splice sleeves" for the fiber optics used in these cables. The splicing process was interesting. We had to program offsets for certain cables to allow for specific amounts of light to pass through the splice. Beyond that info I am not brainy enough to know why or how it effects the data being "yeeted" long distances. Cool stuff!

[@newhampshirelifestyle4233]

As long as the light is continuous along the cable, it will not affect the data rate. All data is encoded in binary "1's and 0's" along the cable.

[@mattdadi9853]

@@newhampshirelifestyle4233 Hi, Fibre splicer here. using light is a bit different because any interference in the cable (poor splice for example) will affect the wavelength of the transmission. since the transmitter uses multiplexing it is that much harder to calibrate. the equipment on either end then does the 0 and 1 thing. a difference of only a few db will not work on highly sensitive equipment. the offset is to accommodate these db differences as well as the repeaters.

[@ryanpeschel3562]

@@mattdadi9853 No db's = the best db's when it comes to splicing.

[@khuwajausman1760]

Ok bhai ponka

[@devonsykes2598]

@@ryanpeschel3562 you actually want a -25 ish db for fiber it’s way different than coax

[@donaldmoore6327]

Wow im shocked have been led to believe its ALL SATELLITES ...lol ...sarcasm implied ...jeez....

[@doctorpanigrahi9975]

Wire is always faster.

[@kedarpatil7095]

Satellites run the television network, and the internet to some extent, only for isolated places. Rest is wire.

[@kedarpatil7095]

@@doctorpanigrahi9975 Wire is actually slower, it's the capacity that matters.

[@whityguy9570]

@@doctorpanigrahi9975 it's not wire it's because of optical fibre which carries signal at the speed of light

[@doctorpanigrahi9975]

@@whityguy9570 I have never seen a white person in my entire life.

[@janab6660]

I’ve been working in telecoms for over 10 years and discovering subsea cables was by far my favourite part.

[@James_Knott]

I started in telecom about 50 years ago. No such thing as fibre cables back then. Back then, the undersea cables were analog, with several voice channels. Satellites were also used. The first trans Atlantic cable, capable of carrying voice, came online in 1958, IIRC.

[@ZeljkoPetric76]

​@@James_KnottThanks brother

[@2shotsofvaca411]

I actually enjoy finding cut cables in the ocean. Extremely peaceful knowing you’re this little human in a massive body of water.

[@thorwilliams7546]

Peaceful??? You must have been on the payout portion, not pulling in the 10,000 meters of drag line. It's a pain in the @$$ coiling all that back up into rope tanks.

[@2shotsofvaca411]

@@thorwilliams7546 I'll I do is splice now lol. I started as a labor a longggggg time ago so yes I'm on the payout side called when needed which isn't as often as people think 😂

[@ceezb5629]

I learned about undersea cables when I was in high school... I had a part time job and when I came into work after school one day, most of the staff was gone. I learned that the undersea cable had snapped due to a massive earthquake and all emails to Asian servers were being returned as undeliverable. It took about a week to fix the issue.

[@TheRealJohnMadden]

Stuff like this is exactly why I got into IT, technology is fascinating and your average person has no clue how much insane work goes into making everything we use on a day-to-day basis possible.

[@BigElly12]

This actually bloooowwwss my mind. The way the most modern thing in our time works is definitely not as I imagined. I was thinking something depending on satellites. This gives me a lot more patience when my internet acts up for those 25 seconds. 😧😧

[@ShamliseG]

it's faster because it's through cable. If it was satellite, it'd be slower and more inconsistent

[@aesir1ases64]

If you were using internet in the time of dial up you would be a very patient man regarding that, I still remember when 1mb was the king speed and before that when I would download a game (RO) 1GB and would take 1 week lol

[@jerryg3652]

Both cables and wireless (satellite) connections travel at the speed of light, but satellite is further away, thus increasing latency, that’s why it won’t ever replace cables. Unless we figure out faster-than-light-travel…

[@mrmancheste]

@@jerryg3652 The light in cable does not travel at the speed of light, because it is slowed down through the material of the cable. Light only travels at the speed of light in a vacuum.

[@samyoon7796]

Starlink ;p

[@HumanSagaVault]

Technology have really come a long way, imagine a person from 1500s or 1400s would react seeing these technological advancements? even just a cellphone would probably mindblown them, a tiny gadget that could so much. WOW! just WOW!!

[@katrinam6795]

Jules Verne fantasized about Zoom conferences in 18something

[@AsmodeusMictian]

15-1600's? LOL, not mind blown. More like grab the pitchforks and torches because there's witchery about! The middle ages were a time of immense power being held by the Church, so science was almost extinct and instead replaced by demons, devils, and all sorts of boogey-men to scare the simple folk into behaving themselves, and to quietly and happily give all their money over to the Church. Well, all that wasn't taken by the Lord of the area (depending on where you were living, of course.) A lighter would amaze them. So would a modern mirror, anything made out of literally any non-natural material, electricity, gas appliances, hell...basically anything that started making modern life possible would throw them into a tizzy.

[@Adplusamequalsadam]

Show an iPhone to someone from the 1980s. Someone in the 1400s will just say it’s witchcraft, someone from the 80s will actually appreciate the technology, they had portable phones that were massive, no internet, and only a few people had them.

[@brendanwright5668]

Some of the visuals in the video are of power cables, not fiber optic. Slightly misleading. It's important to note how small these cables actually are. The Marea system mentioned is less than an inch in diameter at its longest span. I work on the ship at 4:06.

[@ruffxm]

Then wouldn't you know that the cables have copper running within them....to power the repeaters?

[@fibconetfttxsupplier2424]

As a manufacturer of submarine optical cables, it's great to see such a popular educational video. We hope our products can help more people enjoy the convenience of the Internet!

[@damiana4360]

Awesome Man!

[@rand0mcraft]

"for now cable is by far the cheapest and most efficient means of yeeting vast packets of data over incredibly long distances"

[@EBTS-3]

LMFAO Thank you ! Wth was that !?

[@coffeetime.3063]

Yes, if your intention are to controll the flow of information and force everyone to pay for it. Yes I agree you would make sure it was removed it out of the free realm (The air) and put into cables. Wi-Fi is through the air through very small rabbit ear antennas. All info flows no matter how much. Unless you get toggled by the provider in an attempt to frustrate us from using it. By law they are required to release it in the air. They get around this by emitting such a weak signal through the air that its almost impossible to pick up on to the extent you would have to get within 30 cm.of where the signal is broadcast to pick it up.thats with an antenna.

[@dirgaantariksa3286]

If war between country vs country happen , And military enemy doing destroy cables , did all server military down ?

[@kaushalagarwal2243]

This was a great thing to watch. Especially how huge chunks of data is being transmitted through out the entire world. Things can have so much of uses!!

[@chidiobi9893]

Yes yes And this gets me asking myself how much are yet to be discovered And how many inventions more are yet to be made and how many has been made without our knowledge ( talking about UFO’s😂)

[@kaushal_ag14]

@@chidiobi9893 actually. The world is changing, we don’t know where we are heading…

[@OneTwoFive0]

Sharks at the bottom of the ocean watching this video with their Wi-Fi: “tell us something new…”

[@toshineon]

Sometimes a lot of tech can just feel like "magic", as if it just works. It's cool to get a look at how and why.

[@davidromero7823]

Exactly when technology exceeds the limits many times we confuse it with magic

[@caspernicus5822]

"Cable is by far the cheapest and most efficient method of *yeeting* vast amounts of data"

[@nzshock]

YEET

[@godarkmode9047]

Imagine having to go into the middle of the ocean to fix a wire that got cut in half. Oh my.

[@Xaminn]

If it got cut in half, just look at the middle of the cable.

[@GregMoress]

@@Xaminn Yes, just a nice little swim 1,000 miles out, then 1 mile down. Takes me... ohh... about 2 hours.

[@Xaminn]

@@GregMoress Sorry, I had to say it lol.

[@emerald8917]

Things like this are the reason I love nerds,geeks,and engineers.

[@twisted_nether373]

You love them for their... cables?

[@emerald8917]

I love them cos they always invent things.always striving to makelife comfortable for humanity.they give us civilization. I have always always,never stopped loving nerds from my mother's womb.😍

[@Malitubee]

@@emerald8917 Dude you are so right ! They truly are visionary’s

[@emerald8917]

@@Malitubee I'm a lady.😋😋😋

[@Malitubee]

@@emerald8917 My apologizes ma’am , but your comment was wonderful I completely agree with it

[@quantummm]

so the planet is basically wrapped in cords. I'm here for it.

[@iteerrex8166]

2:31 The fishermen need to stop trolling the wires 😂🤣

[@naemek9675]

When my father told me about those cables as a child I always wondered how they worked. Thanks for making this video.

[@mikelisteral7863]

how else would Atlantis get internet

[@hewitc]

Which cable? The first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1858. Before the Civil War.

[@Phizzo4real]

It's wild how the internet we enjoy is due largely to someone putting wires in the ground 😂😂😂 - wish I had thought of that 🤭

[@edwardsmyth6522]

Do you get the cloud/cloud computing too? It ain't in the sky

[@LockiFlycatcher]

@@edwardsmyth6522 it should be called underwater computing 😅

[@coffeetime.3063]

What's wild is they removed signals that magically flow through the electromagnetic atmosphere and put everything into cables .bye bye antennas bye bye free flow of info. As the alexander graham bell experiment put it "across the ocean for the very first time." through the air Antenna to antenna. That was replaced by greed and control and into wires it did go.

[@g35s]

@@coffeetime.3063 Lol what

[@coffeetime.3063]

@@g35s most forms of communication were removed from station to us by the air directly. And put into wires not to enhance but to control the flow. When I was a kid in the 60's. We used antennas only and got many channels for free . More if u had a better antenna. Slowly it all went into wires and delivered to your house by cable. We can still get it through the air but it is now pushed through cell towers and they can throttle it and charge you for data that would otherwise flow freely through the air. Channel 4 Is the only free station now .still pick it up with with antenna..

[@user-TheTrueGibly]

Id like to think a shark bit into one of those wires and was instantly filled with 10 terabytes of internet and is now creating a underwater base as we speak to begin his evil plans. And he wears a monocole. There has never been a more perfect villian.

[@darkwowplayer]

This man really used the word "Yeeting" in a documentary-style video about telecommunications. Legend.

[@parthmanav5734]

Yup

[@ashwinkumar5019]

Glad I watched this video. You've explain it very well. Most people are clueless as to how this all works.

[@poopingoode417]

Can’t believe White people invented all this crazy stuff. Thank you!!

[@fynkozari9271]

But I dont use cable for internet, I use Wifi.

[@katlegomotube3811]

@@fynkozari9271 hahaha

[@katlegomotube3811]

@@fynkozari9271 yes you are directly connected to your Wi-Fi but indirectly connected to optic fibre cables

[@jknrawle]

@@fynkozari9271 your Internet content (whatever you are downloading) is coming from "somewhere". It may be local but more likely it is located in a data centre a long way away. If it is located in another country's data centre, it is highly likely that a submarine cable will be part of the path that the content takes from the data centre to your handset or other device. Even on land, mobile companies use fibre to connect their towers to their local data centre. The "wi" (wireless) part is actually just in the "last mile" part of the network that brings you the Internet.

[@tonekmechanist5192]

Thanks for the video, I was once one of the few employees who have ever been on that job of coiling that cable

[@Totalavulsion]

My uncle used to work for AT&T on fibre optic cables, mainly in the Atlantic ocean, but he essentially covered half the world with his counterpart looking after the other. As a child of the 80s I thought that was the coolest thing ever.

[@Trooperos90]

imagine a corporate meeting thinking how to connect continents and there is this one guy; 'what about we lay down a cable through whole ocean?'

[@NullaNulla]

Eventually they'll be obsolete for better fiber with better reflective surfaces etc but for now, the only changes will be the end equipment (equipment at each end) and the repeaters to allow faster operations of each wavelength of light. I like the fact you mentioned the different wavelengths (multi-plexing) where you can have non competing "colours" of laser light beaming down the same glass run (they bounce down the cable at differing lengths so don't mingle/confuse). It doesn't actually do anything for your "speed" but it MASSIVELY increases the throughput because instead of say 1000 people sharing a single core at the same time, 200 might be on blue, 200 on green, etc meaning the shared connection is not bogged down as much (where you might get the speed illusion from).

[@MrCillaKam]

exactly and we have a long time before this system becomes obsolete.

[@dutchvanderlinde658]

It's crazy how when you don't hold a water hose it will squirm so symmetrical, every swerve matching the opposite, the water pressure keeping it moving back and forth, simply amazing

[@Interdimensional27]

Isaac Newton moment right there!

[@d1want34]

the topic that I've always been fascinated of. people been talking about how 90% of the ocean aren't explored yet, then there are these massive cables all around the world

[@aduck2825]

sure, there are objectively a lot of wires down there ...but how many wires would it take to cover the whole damn ocean floor? WAY more than 10x the cable we have now ... the ocean being unexplored and also the location of international cables are not mutually exclusive?

[@d1want34]

@@aduck2825 Im sure, when they survey the ocean topography for the cabling project, they've explored more than 10% of it. "90% of the ocean are unexplored" are a bit exaggerated is what I'm saying.

[@TeShady]

I intern at a datacenter and my eyes litt up when he mentioned DWDM, its a big concept here and we are implementing it in a variety of ways. Great video!

[@InDadequate]

2 hypothetical questions - 1/ Are any national cables built or attempted to be built in secret to prevent other nations from interfering with communications in the event of hostilities? and 2/ Although it seems likely that something like starlink will be more prevalant ifor the future of communications is there a plan to continue to build in reduncies for physical cables in case something happens outside our atmosphere that would impact satallites?

[@steelman86]

Not to worry!! TRUMP enacted his SPACE FORCE,!!!! What is it and what does it do??? Dozens of tRUMP supporters were asked those questions and SURPRISE,!! Nobody knew what the SPACE FORCE IS,!! LET'S GO BANNON,!!

[@manofsteel8728]

@@steelman86 Trump not in office btw

[@GregMoress]

Well when you put a cable under the ocean to another (foreign) country it's not a national cable... So what they do at the other end is beyond your control... as well as if they tell anyone about it. Besides, pretty sure a sub can detect a cable at the bottom of the sea pushing thousands of volts through it... all they need to do is sweep the coastline... right?

[@whyisblue923taken]

@@steelman86 This is one of the dumbest comments I've read all year and we're near the end of the year.

[@TomDotCom2]

@@manofsteel8728 Yes, Orange-faced pussygrabber was impeached and removed, as promised.

[@Lena-vw6ye]

Although wireless has it's conveniences, I've just always found that wired products work better than wireless. From mice, to wifi, to chargers. Obviously wireless has it's conveniences like your phone, but wired will always have it's place.

[@dandyND]

it's a matter of cost actually, why aren't we all in flying cars like what we envisioned in the past? Because we can't afford that, yet. Same with wireless technology, it will get to a point where it is affordable and reliable enough that cables will be a thing of the past

[@ewerton945]

​@@dandyND This reallity is far, while DWDM technology is doubling the wired capacity each year (right now limited in 400gb, but vendors aiming 1tb for next year), the best wireless technologys available on the market today are: "5g", that can reach up to 1gb/s, and wifi6 that can reach 10gb

[@tvm-manducktv8375]

Look ♫ Look ♫ Look ♫ 💕 😊 May the ducks heal you 🦆💕✨

[@Jorge-po9tl]

Wireless wifi is powered by wired internet ……..

[@apamdoh]

@@ewerton945 that actually just the front end... Let just say, some key telecommunications company, they're preparing for 6g back end communication that able to transmit up to 150Gbps... This supposed to be the starting solution for cable problem... Just the technology still in development ;)

[@Tec2Check]

What a fantastic infrastructure! Meanwhile my town is still struggling to implement high-speed internet and we have to rely on wireless data from our phones on a regular basis 😄

[@MadBlissOff]

0:33 the only one problem is Azeybarjan is washed by the Caspian Sea, not the Black Sea

[@CzarnyHusarz_]

I used to work in factory that produced this kind of cables of this ~diameter. We produced the most expensive ones with 3meters per hour. 1 meter weight is about 40 kg made of aluminium and about 75 made of copper.

[@partyghost2]

bro they manage to get 100 gbps overseas yet my network provider cant do 2 mbps on 5 kilometers of range

[@TheWanderer28]

The video is very enlightening. I have a new appreciation for the things that I see and hear on the internet from now on. I wish there are many more of this kinds of videos to explain things that most people take for granted.

[@DoryAbelman]

I agree completely! I also found this video very enlightening and have a deeper appreciation (and patience haha) for load times and things I see online :) Would be happy to see more videos like this

[@QuranicWarners]

Flat earthers already knew this, and were constantly called idiots because everyone else "knew" that we got our internet from satellites...

[@suprememaxpayne]

Most of the laying footage shown is actually power cables, which are much thicker. Fiber optic cables are between 15 and 50 mm thick

[@CharlzOkojie]

The fiber cables are at the center of the power cable...& of course, extra cladding for protection

[@Nick.Ashton]

I think you'll find they're more thicker than that underwater.. all fiber optic cables are clad with copper and then the armor shielding. More like 100-150mm thick.

[@jknrawle]

@@CharlzOkojie we do not normally mix fibre and power cables because it makes them difficult to maintain. There is a copper thread in a repeatered submarine fibre-optic cable but it does not add significantly to the diameter.

[@varsha9682]

i cannot tell u how long i have been waiting for one of these, u explained it so simply. so interesting

[@coffeegod2236]

0:13 Imagine losing a game due to shark bitting the internet cable

[@callmeaju742]

No dude sharks cannot be the reason we have the report by ICPC they said like """"sharks are not the nemesis of the internet """"

[@tonnewhite62]

This was once my job for 2 years and it was fun to be part of this great job

[@user-xw4mu6nz4t]

2:00 Anyone who's ever did redstone in Minecraft knows exactly what this guy is talking about xD

[@Amelie12]

but well, these are nearly zero Tick repeaters. Signal would be way to slow if u use repeaters, better use redstone torches. a lot of double inverters.

[@channelnamehere959]

Aa

[@owencole5774]

Glad to see that the new update has allowed redstone and repeaters to be underwater!

[@eshraj9215]

This update is so old bro? We’re u playing 0.11?

[@AnBez]

Your energy is contagious! Loved every second of this

[@anthonyorque]

5:28 "For now, cable is by far the cheapest and most efficient yeeting vast packets of data over incredibly long distances, fast." The best use of "yeeting" I've seen in a tech video...no cap

[@AnonningAnon]

Probably the best way this subject has been presented so far. This feels like an informative video you could find in classrooms of the future.

[@Bitplex]

I still have questions! How are the cabled anchored to the seabed for so many thousands of KMs if they are just hose width in diameter on average? How is a cable repaired underwater if the introduction to water in the internals of cables could interfere? If you have thousands of KM of cable and you've got an outage, how do they know which part of the cable needs diagnosis? If the average depth of the oceans around the world is 2 KM, then how could a repair to one of these cables only take a matter or hours, as stated in the video? Sorry if this all sounds really ignorant.

[@fouladz]

From what i know there use a machine that give electric pulse and if the pulse returned, they can know how far it reached for example 5km or 500km and go to that location and fix it

[@Hinarukun]

@@fouladz thats insane that someone came up with this idea

[@fouladz]

@@Hinarukun that what i been taught in aviation field, i dont know about sea cables but i think they use new technologies that can detect if there is problems

[@Bitplex]

@@fouladz either way thanks for your input very interesting.

[@jknrawle]

Cables are not anchored to the seabed. If they are in water depth >1000m, they are simply laid on top of the sea bed and their weight will be sufficient to keep them more or less in the same place although currents may move them which is why we leave plenty of slack to ensure the cable is not stretched and broken. In water depth

[@gokucanfly4593]

Im a network engineer and it still exciting to see how crazy IT has gone.

[@specialiseesi6746]

I´ve been looking for this for a long time and am glad I found it! It´s truly amazing and I didn´t know that amount of cable was under the oceans. I thought we had a satellite infrastructure. It looks dangerous... cables need to be very strong and protected to resist such depth and conditions. Plus how are they going to be replaced after decades and the ever-improving capacity and speed of the Internet? That´s a lot of work.

[@AnhTHo-dw3rl]

i agree! Human is genius creator!

[@vuhns]

@pyropulse nobody is born with knowledge; we all need to learn it somewhere. simply asking a question is not being ignorant, it's being curious.

[@spuriousmagic]

@pyropulse when you think you know everything is when you actually know nothing. Dont be aa dick. The guy could know about something you know nothing about. everyone has their interests.

[@HopefulHoneybee]

You said you thought we had a satellite system... that's what they want us to think... anything to further support space... we don't have thousands upon thousands of satellites floating in earths orbit... because their is no orbit.. satellites hang from balloons as large as football stadiums and the earth is not a sphere... its flat... they've been lying to you... and if you notice.. they keep using cell towers to further push the satellite narrative... because.. it makes you think we have a satellite system in place for the purpose of our phones, internet and such.. but we haven't been given the truth on what they are used for..

[@Vayify]

It’s not a tech vision video without the word “Gargantuan”

[@l3a4c1m]

Everyone: 99% of ALL internet traffic runs on a hidden network of undersea cables. No one: But...but...what about satellites? .... Moderators: Shut it down, they know too much.

[@mohamedtalbi1396]

Flat Earth 😃

[@netbotcl586]

That's the 1%.

[@hariranormal5584]

Satelites hardly do much, all modern traffic goes via Fiber cables. Undersea cables are one thing, but cables just underneath land is not very well documented, they connect a lot too. 99% of the traffic flowing thru sea cables is quite false

[@troliskimosko]

who said 99%? Source: M L

[@4everfaithfulun2Him]

For a society that claims we can't get to the bottom of the ocean floor, we certainly have a lot of cables disproving that on video.

[@stachowi]

How did you explain so much and so well in just 6 minutes... bravo.

[@hugoplantfortune8257]

by preparing

[@krashd]

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

[@DoublebrutalCS2]

Is no one gonna talk about the fact a serious documentary voice just said "Yeeting" xD 5:30

[@ValeriePallaoro]

Thank you = yes!

[@AlexanderJohnLee]

An unprofessional ghetto use of the English language... disliked (oh wait yt removed the dislike button so that the sheeple can be easier led to the slaughter)

[@henrythebasset8749]

Nice, I didn't pick up on that.

[@jackyvivid]

This is why I subscribed to your channel. Cool stuff man!

[@YearsOVDecay1]

Crazy to think if you send an email across the world that that information is beaming from your phone or computer and flying through a cable laying deep on the cold dark ocean floor.

[@chrismwinand]

I love that he said "Yeeting vast amounts of data". Lol

[@Usamamohamud]

completely went over my head, i thought that was a normal word. Watch it get slowly added to our vocab

[@Kelyanz]

I always thought the internet was only run by satellites or just wireless, I never thought about cables under the ocean...

[@Leeverse89]

I always thought it’s just about satellites. Never knew there’s so much going on beneath ocean.

[@johndelacruz3843]

wireless communication can always interrupt by storms

[@jiggeromes5825]

satellites are a hoax. just like space ;)

[@alvitodev]

@@jiggeromes5825 funny

[@Christoph-sd3zi]

Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement

[@ManniLive]

You might aswell forget everything you thought you knew about space.

[@1FatHappyBirthday]

There is no doubt that one day those cables will be abandoned as totally useless and worthless.

[@rhodephorus7733]

We can't be anymore grateful for easily affordable, accessible and feasible internet

[@dextermore4851]

O so wtf can Howard do

[@rhodephorus7733]

@@dextermore4851 I think you are short of some moral values like gratitude, who takes every thing for granted, like eyes and and other physical capabilities through birth, and money, mansion, car through inheritance

[@dextermore4851]

I wish the inheritance part 😪 was true

[@guhendrannaraynan7387]

Just can't imagine what if a Giant earthquake hits this wires and how it can affect the internet around the globe.

[@handyandy6050]

Earthquakes etc do cause cable damage and disruption. Normally, in somewhere like the Atlantic, where there are many cables, internet traffic gets re-routed whilst a repair takes place, and there is normally little noticeable disruption. For parts of the world where cables are more sparse, the disruption is obviously more noticeable, although with increasingly more cables being laid all over the world, cable breaks are becoming less disruptive due to the fact there are other cables where data can be "re-routed".

[@Ilirfier]

Equally do you imagine if a big earthquake hits people are going to die who gives a shit about the internet

[@sigint99]

The Internet has redundant pathways by design to get around this problem. .

[@CesareVesdani]

Those cables are super long. Longer than the Earth's diameter.

[@JossueND]

Amazing information. However, fiber cable availability is not at a 100% level in the American continent either, there are small places that I doubt will ever get it because they're incredibly remote and the financial gain isn't much, but that's where satellite internet comes into play.

[@En3myArea]

Very informative video! I actually didn't know that there were cables connected from the US with Spain under the ocean. That is mind blowing to me!

[@danielpanaguiton2606]

My whole life was a lie believing internet runs through satellite to satellite

[@martinwashington3152]

It does as well mate, it's not all copper and photons :D You's not lying to yourself entirely, trust me..

[@danielpanaguiton2606]

@@martinwashington3152 thanks mn i was just being sarcastic for a sec but anyway thanks for the info man🙌🏻

[@dceballos067]

This video was very enlightening. I had no idea the internet is cable based internationally, thought we were utilizing satellites.

[@James_Knott]

Actually, until undersea fibre arrived, there was very little Internet traffic crossing the ocean, as the copper cables of the time didn't support much traffic. Even satellites have nowhere near the bandwidth of fibre.

[@Vagabond_Etranger]

Anything satellite & nasa is a big HOAX dude. Look up satellites attached to balloons & secret air force plane collecting them if they go off course. Everything is ground base communications.

[@HappyPurpleFella]

I always wondered how internet got across oceans, this answers a lot of questions.

[@GhostJC777]

I imagine those cables to be much much larger! Wow! And they just lie there :O insane! Always wondered about this, thank you!

[@iliyas1155]

0:35 it's not Black Sea - it's Caspian Sea

[@samueld5418]

you and 40 other sand people have already pointed that out and nobody cares, its not what the vid was about

[@marcellsantoso]

1:56 ah yes my minecraft knowledge finally comes to use

[@kalielpi59]

Doutora Xanda Gurgel do hit "O Fio que Liga o Facebook" você sempre será famosa! ❤❤

[@horrnett]

human minds are just amazing, in the past 100 years we have leaped and advance at a mind blogging rate.

[@poopingoode417]

White people are truly amazing. Can’t believe they invented everything we take for granted

[@mdfaizahmed5825]

@@poopingoode417 yeah based on the ancient African, arabian and Indian mathematics. Right ?

[@TB-vb3ov]

Mind boggling rate I believe you meant. We have.

[@samueld5418]

@@mdfaizahmed5825 wrong. go read a book. the greatest inventors of all time have all been white. get over it. you mad about it? get your people out of the mud and sand.

[@c.m.7037]

A friend of mine in the industry, a triple CCIE helped with some parts of this back in the day. :) pretty neat.

[@thecoderabbi]

Cables are great and have been the MVPs of the internet for a very long time and hats off to the great minds that have been committed to making the internet accessible. But I believe it would be great to see an era where we do not entirely rely on cables, without trading off speed.

[@ATCRyderX]

Them under-the-waters interwebz lines be *thicc*

[@dertythegrower]

I appreciate your work, cheers