How a Few Undersea Cables Connect the Entire Internet

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[@hawaiisurfski3602]

I was wondering why that Nigerian prince stopped asking me for help

[@dangda-ww7de]

I send the 1000 dollar so i can get the 100million of gold but it was refunded because line is cut off.

[@RHEC1776]

Lmao

[@keepsmiling5937]

@@dangda-ww7de exactly, they even gave me 100 dollar extra for the in convince

[@TheAtomaton]

You beat me to it! Lmao

[@vladtudose5362]

Priceless

[@generalh1042]

Packet loss is just a jellyfish rubbing against that wire

[@hanro50]

...but they're fibre optics... Is what I would say if I didn't get the joke

[@RS-xx8gz]

Hanro50 r/wooooosh *NOT*

[@ChaotiX1]

nah packet loss happens when the cable gets a leak

[@sexbeast2687]

generalh 104 jelly fish don’t work like that bro

[@getnaenaed8063]

generalh 104 it was 666 now i make it 667

[@colinmallett4681]

I joined the team to build the first transatlantic optical cable in 1978. At the time I was curious what impact our work would have on society. 40 years later I now know. It is taken for granted. Proud of that.

[@TonyMontana-fs3lu]

Colin Mallett earth is flat satellites don’t exist

[@NurseSnow2U]

This is so cool! Absolutely phenomenal 😊

[@vijaykutty5187]

Thanks to learning from people like yourself, people like me have jobs (I support the build of offshore Wind farms).

[@nurakmalhafeez1009]

@@TonyMontana-fs3lu That's right, if the earth moves around the sun, then a setellit will be left behind.

[@knowledgeandgamesofaadvikh568]

@@TonyMontana-fs3lu If the Earth was flat Satellites'd still exist

[@madjaster9620]

Imagine cutting a countries’ chord access during a war

[@beatusSLO]

I don't think that's the only way to get internet (through those cables), or is it?

[@iPixl3OMG]

@@beatusSLO You have satellites aswell, but the cables are the backbone

[@decypha4227]

A countries military internet chord location would probably be kept secret

[@madjaster9620]

DECYPHA The chord locations were shown in the video, but it’s very possible that there are hidden military exclusive ones, although Microsoft and the country that the other end of the chord is located in would know as well.

[@kama6592]

Stop calling them chords lmao

[@Enumclaw]

I'm glad the 1800s trans Atlantic lines were mentioned. I still think its amazing that they were able to lay down a cable all the way across the Atlantic way back in the 1800s.

[@guyincognito9484]

I can't understand how they had the logistics to CREATE a cable THAT LONG let alone the WEIGHT of it on those primitive ships??? Bender: "WE'VE COME A LONG WAY BABY!!!"

[@peterclose3251]

Agreed. Hearing about those lines from way back when really blew my mind.

[@abhishekgarg5127]

it is ironic that they were able to lay those trans Atlantic cables in mid-1800's at a time when light bulbs didn't even exist (until late 1800's). No electricity, but lets lay thousands of miles of cable across the trans Atlantic. Some feat!

[@imonymous]

@Thedwarvenpower typical Elon Musk fanboy LMFAO!!!!1!!!one!!! how could tesla exist if cars weren't even invented yet??!!!?!!!!

[@imonymous]

@Thedwarvenpower seriously tho, not paying attention in school and learning things from KZbin is no indicator of being smart or dumb.

[@charshii3745]

Am I the only one that didn’t know any of this and was totally mind blown

[@UbixQ]

Yes

[@c4pt4ina69]

yeah, you are the only one

[@iSyriux]

that's not true, i did not know about this as well

[@Boofus90]

Charshii Yup

[@dudamonas2450]

Not me

[@javianjohnson8746]

I swear you learn more about the world on Twitter/KZbin than in 12 years of American schooling.

[@op-pv2nn]

Javian Johnson True that. Look into flat earth if you really want to learn something.

[@SteveAmima]

Same in kenya

[@Ryan-uh9le]

@@op-pv2nn lol

[@philipdafish9112]

op bruh your really flat earth

[@vinny8195]

Right all we learned in history class was stupid american history like every year it seemed

[@Glamcu]

All those cables and Ubisoft servers still shit when I play R6S

[@siddarth_vader]

Microsoft hosts the Rainbow 6 Siege servers

[@iKingRPG]

It's not the cables is the data centers the cables connect to

[@mical5131]

@@iKingRPG woooosh

[@OwenNovakChildofGod]

Imagine playin rAiNbOw SiX sIeGe

[@xXxBoGGiesxXx]

LMAOOO HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA

[@vodkainglassofstalinium1221]

Isn't it strange that I found out about Real Life Lore from this channel

[@RELANDREL]

lol

[@ProtocolsMaster]

Proof that satellite is fake nonexistent

[@raoulduke7668]

@@ProtocolsMaster ur a little bit confused, but you got the spirit

[@emadgergis6710]

Vodka In Glass of Stalinium isn't it weird that I'm literally the opposite of you?

[@ProtocolsMaster]

@@raoulduke7668 lol😆 cute one

[@wordsmith9360]

I said this to my dad now he says I’m an conspiracy theorist

[@justfrank5661]

Show him this video

[@jipeh]

did you tell him "ok boomer"?

[@DoomiePookie]

I want one of these cables laid straight up to my house....actually just put it straight up my ass!!!

[@Sergio-fu7mv]

Hahaha, your dads hilarious. 😂👌🏼

[@PWCDN]

@@jipeh This is the only appropriate response.

[@turtledragon1104]

"Cables must handle the pressure equivalent to you holding a car with your thumb" Any car in particular? Or do I just assume its a Corolla?

[@endtimefellowship]

A thumb Car. DUH . LOL

[@vanillavonchivalry6657]

Fuck man you're way overthinking this. It's equivalent to holding up a Hotwheels dragracer with your thumb.

[@75190255508]

The thickness of the cable should be measured in US pennies and the length in Central Parks.

[@Ocean_38]

So, 8000 meter water on top of a cable means approx. a hydrostatic pressure of 800*10^5 Pa (11.603 psi). Let’s check the comparison with your corola: If you measure the area of your thumb (assume 150mm^2) and it gets divided by the weight of a toyota corola (1.315kg) you will get 860 bar (12473psi) of pure pressure. So it‘s valid to say that the cable has to approx. withstand the same amount of weight equal to a car balanced on a human thumb.

[@dutchmansmine9053]

No mate, it's definitly a Prius.

[@IslandOfPanau]

6:02 the fact that not even half of the world uses the internet yet is actually mind boggling. Think about the astronomical difference of information we all have access to compared to someone not on the internet.

[@theblueguyfromimblue9950]

Ok boomer

[@IslandOfPanau]

@@theblueguyfromimblue9950 youre 8 months late buddy...

[@condonjohn1518]

Brought back lots of memories. Spent my entire career in global telecoms on the operations/marketing/sales side of the business. Negotiated several international contracts for co-ownership in cables both in Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Absorbed quite a bit of knowledge about cable construction from rubbing shoulders with the tech guys both afloat and ashore. Back in the day costs were shared by international telecom carriers and governments at both ends of the cable. However with the arrival of the internet giants these companies are so rich that they just build cables around the world and pay the entire costs themselves.

[@ulrikahaggard9923]

Damn bruh that's sounds like a cool job, or at least the way you describe it

[@davidmusser7927]

So, what do they use those communication satellites for? I guess those are just in the NASA cartoons.

[@danielwalker26]

Imagine having 9tb/s internet speed all to yourself. /drool

[@SShari-bs2kx]

rip internet bill

[@2406ab]

@@Chris971. you would also be bottlenecked by your own computers harddrive or SSD or even your RAM

[@youssef-lm8su]

​@@Chris971. But imagine the potentials with 9TB/s and the right hardware (impossible) you can DDoS attack all the word known servers, The world recorded was 1.35Tb/s. Or you can create the world fastest torrent.

[@ajinkc1031]

@@2406ab hardware has nothing to do with it well it probably does but you literally are talking about storage commponents which shouldn't bottleneck it

[@ajinkc1031]

@@youssef-lm8su no that's not how ddos attacks work you don't use internet to launch ddos attacks

[@IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou]

RLL2: The first transatlantic cable was laid between the United States and Great Britain Also RLL2: *_draws line between the UK and Newfoundland_*

[@jackpot7898]

Kudos to engineers and team who design and lay this infrastructure. Literally connecting the world

[@tesstickle7267]

The first cable connecting two territories of the British empire.

[@quizplz]

Newfoundland is in Canada, not the US as alluded to in the video.

[@milohrnic2023]

Back then it was part of Britain

[@hereticalfish3509]

quizplz potato potato

[@MrPBBz]

Ireland also isn’t part of Great Britain

[@tesstickle7267]

@@MrPBBz incorrect. In 1858 the British empire ruled most of the world lol the first cable was between two territories/members.

[@tesstickle7267]

@@MrPBBz it was the UK. And part of the empire like everyone else. The biggest most powerful empire in history..even the yanks can be proud of that family history. Even the Romans couldn't achieve such a thing

[@brock6286]

I feel like outback Australia’s cable has been cut for a while now...

[@zachb1706]

Brock I feel like all of Australia has just been cut off

[@ummijaan1448]

Australia who?

[@brock6286]

Zach B lol same

[@gremlin8635]

Him: there are 420 underwater internet cables Everyone: *NICE*

[@ffnovice7]

420 people: *_DUDE._*

[@buxeffect2654]

Highlight of the video 🔥

[@iBananaa_og]

I´m actually surprised that you are the only one with this comment. Had to stop the video and scroll way too down to find this ! Nice !

[@christopherjohnson1803]

At one time, there were 69 cables.

[@moonlighght8246]

They say: “Once it’s on the internet, it’s there for good.” I say: “Hand me the scissors.”

[@ThePeterDislikeShow]

And some very accurate rockets too.

[@viperx3577]

Youd need a chainsaw

[@911shub]

Linus: already watercooled, let's make those Cable RGB... this episode sponsored by WWW

[@jt-bg6ey]

sponsered by www.www.com

[@keebler1778]

@@jt-bg6ey sponsored by info.cern.ch

[@frickinlazer8182]

The fact that I didn't know this disturbed me, but I do now, so I am relieved.

[@abhishekgarg5127]

This is the best channel for educational purposes. I have seen many other channels, but this one by far has the best narration, animated pictures, content description, etc. You are very well organized and the best teacher indeed!

[@christianrepp2800]

Once again the internet has taught me more than I have learned in school. But thank god I know how to square dance properly thanks to gym class.

[@tylersmith9868]

As a guy who buries cables, this video was very interesting!

[@mansoorahmed1256]

How much time is consume in burying cables

[@yellowbutterfly6733]

I, a woman, have layed the Azores-Cables in the year 1998. I was the only woman in the world, who has done such work. I worked for Siemens in these times. It was a great pleasure to do such interesting work. Not many women have had these experiences in their live. I have learned nautical captain once. Thanks, god, for my life.

[@adarshkaran6611]

this video, made after so much research and with precise explanation, has an ironical end where the narrator thanks us for watching it...one of the most informative so far...we should be thankful to u guys

[@noahtrejbal9436]

Imagine the internet going down and being like “ those damn sharks again” 😂

[@cerealbucketcoaster]

its not funny!!! land based fiber tech here... i chase squirrels >:0 lol those bastards are always hungry for my glass!!

[@dutchmansmine9053]

You beat me to it.

[@BrogramFilmss]

Imagine future humans finding these and not knowing what they were used for.

[@UltimateAlgorithm]

They will think that aliens build these cables.

[@MagikarpMan]

@@UltimateAlgorithm I doubt it, we were able to find out that our ancestors built certain things w their level of tech. I see No reason future humans won't know their ancestors built the cables

[@johnblack9281]

Thank you for all the hardwork people put in connecting us together.

[@rhythmdroid]

Wow! Excellent video! No hype, just straight to the point history, relevant diagrams and animations. Loved it!

[@luciandumitru7520]

Makes me feel good that i work in the industry building those repeaters that pushes the internet across the globe 😎

[@JoachimPersonalAccount]

WOW thanks smart engineers of this world!

[@penholder7765]

I usually not subscribe any YT channels with fancy FX and millions of views. But this video makes me subcribe to your channel because how Straight To The Point are the informations you give us. The title and the informations direct to the point.

[@BurningtunaDC]

What a great presentation. Thanks for shooting and sharing.

[@crystallaxx3440]

1:38 700.000 Miles and 127.000 Km cause that makes any sense.

[@evankeal]

And its a pointless reference anyways, unless we are comparing earth cable runs to the cable runs of another planet. Whether its 100 miles or a million miles of cable, its a useless and meaningless number.

[@andrewmcatee4567]

Dominus Crystal missing a zero

[@MedS1010]

that 700.000 Miles is about 1.126.541 km !!

[@bl4ckbl1zz41]

Mohamed Sassi the earth isnt even that big

[@crystallaxx3440]

BlackBlizz259 i mean there is multiple cables soo it might make sense

[@dmaster225]

and then my mom gets pissed when i run a cable thru the kitchen

[@TonyMontana-fs3lu]

dmaster225 earth is flat satellites don’t exist

[@Defy_Convention]

you forgot to bury it a few inches under the floor

[@businesslp3027]

Lol

[@drak1559]

@@TonyMontana-fs3lu dumb fuck lmao

[@antonbarkland2194]

Pretty fascinating stuff! And informative :-) This was great.

[@ancientelixir1311]

I'm originally from Virginia Beach Virginia and its so cool to have it mentioned in the video.

[@furret2006]

who would win the entire internet or a few scissors

[@m4rk0b0y]

2:39 so your saying that scissors can cut this amount of metal and led?

[@bttrickk787]

The internet in a couple years

[@sgamer6015]

Maybe a water proof chainsaw, but yes it would win lol

[@granderondeproductions3286]

@@sgamer6015 pour molten steel on it. Although if anyone compromises this, I'd assume the legal repercussions would be carried out in several countries. That would get you noticed on interpol if someone did attempt to destroy these cables.

[@sgamer6015]

Northern Sailor you can be in legal trouble w multiple countries at once? How would that work with the prison time? Or would you go to prison in one country and pay fines to other lol

[@biquini]

Subscribed! Greetings from Brazil!

[@reallifelore2174]

Hi! Thanks for the support!

[@epic.travel.adventures]

Great video and very informative! Good job! 👍🏻

[@joemulkerins5250]

Excellent video. Thanks...

[@randy7928]

The Russian Navy probably has dolphins and whales trained to cut these cables.

[@alsuarecords7777]

Да 👍

[@thestickmanchannel8589]

Did u see how much steel and iron are made in the cable

[@themarvellouschannel3032]

@@thestickmanchannel8589 r/wooosh

[@mrgreyskyz]

Shhhhhh🤫😌

[@RainAeROoXx]

@@mrgreyskyz Impostor

[@DarkpawTheWolf]

"...first trans-Atlantic cable was laid between the United States and Great Britain..." Then shows a line between Canada and Ireland.

[@vagabaassassina3461]

Americans...

[@angrysealion2259]

they probably wanted to do the shortest point possible and then do the rest on land it was still owned by those countries

[@spellerlittlewing]

This interesting information the best on KZbin beside living off the grid and minimalist lifestyle

[@geoffreywilliams9324]

I did not know this. Fascinating.

[@msw0629]

And the mighty PornHub dominates the rest 30% internet traffic.

[@monochromeart7311]

you forget the hentai population

[@antarcticpenguin]

Why do people watch that? Like what the-

[@learner7600]

Lol 😂

[@FedoraSnatcher]

Snowy Penguin you'll understand one day

[@PsyQoBoy]

Pornhub : for those *who gives a fuck*

[@Mize]

Really good job keep it up!!

[@reallifelore2174]

Thank you so much!

[@TheDuke-vb9cq]

Worlds first (working) International Ocean cable, laid from Ireland to Newfoundland (Canada) by the SS Great Eastern the largest ship in the world at the time, designed by the World famous Engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, with Sir Daniel Gooch, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway, who had set up the company to lay the cable on board during the laying. The ship was then used to lay other cables such as Aden to India as part of the British Empires international communications system set up during the late 1860's. In total the ship laid over 30,000 miles of undersea cables. She was sold for scrap in 1888. In 2011 parts of the ships keel and lower hull were found buried in the River Mersey where she had been scrapped. One of her top masts survives as a flagpole at Liverpool Football Clubs Anfield Ground !

[@danieloffiah1998]

Thanks buddy, a wonderful video.

[@v_esvius8835]

4:17 think of it as a redstone repeater

[@DingoXBX]

bruh now i feel like playing minecraft thanks and goodbye

[@KanyeEastBBCCHAMP]

*my dead ass going to the ocean looking for cables*

[@PNW_Sportbike_Life]

what a cool video man; ty!

[@kingjames061000]

This was a great video! I learned alot!

[@adamgiorgio3236]

Great video! You did however mention that the first transatlantic cable stretched from America to Great Britain however, your image showed it came out of Newfoundland which is a province in Canada 🇨🇦

[@bethanymcgonigle]

And it was connected to ireland and not great Britain but fair enough at the same time Ireland was apart of the UK at the time

[@russlogan181]

So much for the supposed " sattelites" being used for all these connections. Nice video

[@danese1636]

Damn. I never thought that the first implementation of such (now) modern and vital equipment was over 100 YEARS ago!! It's crazy that, long after the need for telegraphs died out, the technology used to transmit such (now) primitive transmissions is responsible for the majority of the infrastructure of the world wide web!!

[@Travelspades]

did not know this, good research bro

[@atomictaninbomb]

420 is NOT "a few." Also, arguably, "The internet is powered 420" would have been a better title.

[@CanIHasThisName]

Well, if you consider that over 50 thousand ISPs and 4.5 billion users rely on these cables, 420 really is just a few.

[@PHCuber]

Here before this channel blows up

[@Mari0_o]

9,999,999 views me too

[@melvinbiju1474]

@@Mari0_o same

[@a.d.t.mapping8792]

Same

[@otemachi4317]

Yes

[@teixeira476]

I'm still waiting

[@randyrauch123]

Very interesting. Nice job with this

[@ThatsNotVeryFunnyLol]

How... the fuck... is any of this possible? This is mindblowing honestly.

[@le9038]

1:32 420 weed man! Kinda vibing doe

[@jturcios4607]

Impressive

[@reallifelore2174]

Thanks for watching! Be sure to lookout for a new video every week!

[@jinjagaming1719]

Fascinating!

[@patrickoneill1011]

Very interesting to watch!

[@Ubersnuber]

1:31 The cable from out of picture north to the north of Norway; is it connected to Svalbard?

[@magnehjonnevag]

Nah man it’s obviously for santa claus and his elves Jk obviously to svalbard lol

[@pointblank0020]

Yes

[@HuevosAzules]

Starlink has entered the chat.

[@broom6958]

Really well explained

[@HitmanMidou]

Thank you man for this informations

[@paude8243]

2:02 It's actually "Marea"!!

[@dakizo2381]

What?! I thought Internet is something in the air youre just connecting to it xD! My life was a lie!!!

[@wojtekpolska1013]

lmao didnt you know about ethernet cables? you know the cable that goes to your wifi router?

[@siddhanthravichandran3245]

I thought that long - distance connectivity required satellites or something, the fact that it's literally a large piece of wire is mind-boggling

[@wojtekpolska1013]

@@siddhanthravichandran3245 well you still had more mind that this dude who basically tough its magic

[@lucianmihail584]

Wow, i'm glad i have subscribed to this channel! Way better then the RLL1

[@johnaugsburger6192]

Thanks so much

[@KigerStudios]

Cables: "We will be the backbone of the Internet for decades to come." StarLink: "Hold my rocket."

[@peterlustig6888]

More trash in space -> bad idea

[@mrxanthios7045]

Oh yeah, I can see gamers playing with 1000 ms of ping.

[@peterlustig6888]

@@mrxanthios7045 ?

[@mrxanthios7045]

@@cn2673 yeah but the speed of electromagnetic waves is not gonna change just to make us a favor

[@catgirl3581]

@@mrxanthios7045 If you would've informed yourself the biggest point is that oversea connection would be way faster than wired^^

[@Zachruff]

Excuse me Newfoundland is not part of the USA :(

[@PabloGonzalez-hv3td]

@@NaveenNT Wtf No

[@HazptMedia]

Naveen N lol true

[@WonderfulAircraft]

It's also not pronounced, "New-found-land"

[@hereticalfish3509]

Naveen N yup

[@manojhp15]

@@NaveenNT LMAO , I died laughing.

[@beppson9201]

1:28 oh that’s nice

[@jesseeglington2602]

Excellent video

[@almightysosa3007]

*me, a redstone expert*: yeah so what

[@Zi7ar21]

If you are viewing this across the world You are seeing my message through the cables (if it is transferred that way) Hello!

[@piezku]

Same for this unnecessary message, from finland by the way

[@felloman88]

What’s up bro ☮️

[@kaiky1807]

Brazil🙂

[@NBKDan]

Nambia! :D Awesome.

[@vindyakelum90]

Excellent

[@TamimLB]

*HE SAID NAMBIA AND NOT NAMIBIA NOW I AM MAD!*

[@Mtl_boi]

Damn I knew there were cables but I didn't know they were that many?!?!

[@phi-ws8mz]

Good knowledge.

[@jamesweeks3833]

excellent video

[@cjheaford]

The whole system seems very vulnerable to bad actors with malicious intent.

[@packers256]

But enough about Kevin Spacey..

[@lyingriotman2220]

I feel like it would take a lot of funding to have the equipment to sabotage a cable buried under the sea floor. Your average joe wouldn't be able to affect something like this. Obviously fishing barges do mess up a few cables, but most of the infrastructure has backups.

[@PewPleDie]

There's such heavy redundancy on these fiber circuits and they are monitored 24/7.

[@andrewpanin3435]

Alot of system are vulnerable, that's why they usually carry ridiculously heavy punishments. Like messing with mail = a federal crime. It's super easy to steal and mess with mail, hence the heavy punishment is there to be the deterrent since any other deterrent would be too expensive.

[@UltimateAlgorithm]

Wait until you learn that The Internet routing protocols is based on trust.

[@justthatguy9946]

1:03 Nambia?

[@artman7780]

Best country in the world for hamberders and covfefes!

[@foursite]

Donald trump all over again

[@capybaracuda2284]

It was so disapointing to here as a "Nambian"

[@djkb125]

Was looking for this. People from Zambia and Namibia must get so annoyed at this

[@MrNick-og4qm]

I place these same cables (much smaller but same configurations) underground for AT&T. The next time your internet goes out, it was probably some company doing underground work, and didn't locate our cables before hand, and sliced into the cables. It happens 3-4 times a day, and im in a relatively rural part of America.

[@ki3lt322]

These cables will stay for decades and it will only gets more faster than we have now! Nice info

[@ginofoogle6944]

and here i am sitting thinking all this time internet is connected by satellites in space.

[@omarborn]

There is no space, our system is closed my friend

[@brainsmasher6617]

Lol

[@monik7867]

amin ok boomer

[@gomen7788]

Space is made up by nasaholes

[@monik7867]

Gomen dumb flat earther

[@x2xebs1]

Can I have the Virginia cable connecting my home's internet.. just asking

[@Daewonnni]

Mind blown 🤯

[@BaghaShams]

ACE cable has been cut again today, again by a fishing vessel. We've been told that our highspeed internet is going to be offline for more than a month. The backup link we're on now is generally slower than 100kbps, when it works at all.

[@AJOlesen]

Image when we colonies another planet, how would we get wired connection? I know it not possible but just image how big the wire got to be.

[@y33t23]

Although only at 323 subscribers at the moment, I know that this channel will get big! :D Edit: First video on this channel, and I already realized something I never realized before. Newfoundland is named like that because of it was a new-found-land :D

[@survivorxp-oldalt9381]

You have 79

[@Dawnarow]

Thank you for the vid. Very informative. Give us (me) more.

[@mrnakamoto9897]

Nice 👍🏽 I hope this comment and subscription help the channel. Loved the information you put out. Keep it up.