Inside the installation of new undersea transatlantic cable
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- If you've ever phoned or emailed someone on another continent or browsed a foreign website, you can dial up some gratitude for something that happened a century and a half ago. It's been 150 years since the Transatlantic Cable began ushering in global communications. And now, tech giants are taking that undersea revolution a big step further. Mark Albert reports.
Cut the cables off from India, sick of phone scams
Who picks up an unknown number?
Muhammad Durrani everybody, it might be a parent or a friend that you didn’t had his number
Thh huh osw
they are using satellites
That's why you are an easy Target you can't even understand that these cables....
How dumb are you
What they didn’t show you is the guy on the beach holding the line while the ship travels across the Atlantic.
itscold yup , it would look bad for the company
What do you mean? Is there a guy holding the cable the whole time?
@@dudebro8831 obviously, how else could they do it
I was the cable holder for 5 years, it was supposed to be a 2 years assignment but the boat capsized so I had to hold onto the cable as they get the new ship up and running again
Fake News Media wow you must be really strong
It’s mind boggling how those minuscule little cable connect every person in the world and can send so much information so quickly.
I know. I was expecting a foot thick cable
@Will Pack ooooooof thanks
@@shongzah2542 They get wrapped in many layers of protection and insulation, they do get really thick.
@@blackbaron9544 thicc*
It is essentially like rapid Morse code but the data line that transmits the "beepity beep beeps" (and boops) utilizes the speed of light. Fiber optic basically keeps reflecting whatever light is administered to an end. Because of those characteristics the other end responds with the speed of light. So it is actually really amazing that we are utilizing the second fastest thing we know of in this manner. What may come next by necessity will be particle entanglement (would be instant). However that I assume would require a very new type of network design including the harnessing devices but who knows.
In order to go wireless we need more wires.
Wireless is within an short distance.
How did wireless get into this story? It’s about a transatlantic cable.
@@Engineer9736 Just Mr Whisky who missed it all.
In order to become wireless we become fiberful.
With some time this will be old stuff. Spacex, blue origin and others are launching their short latency low orbit satellites around the globe
Not impressed, I can do the same with some string and 2 empty coffee cans.
Hahaha
.innovative
Big brain playz 🥴🥴
BEST PROFILE PICTURE AND NAME EVER!!!!!!!!
@@blacksheepmike9101 thanx Mike!
Innovation that excites
I am amazed not so much by the length of the cable, but by how it's rolled up in the ship to be transported and laid. Basically a cable long 15.000 km rolled in a 146 meter long ship. Just wow.
Randumb I guess the "dumb" in your name is correct because no human intestines are even close to a mile long...
@@papaannefranku9693 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH right
This just mind-blowing that they're all these cables in the ocean.
@Lost Aquarian Satelites are extremely latent
@Lost Aquarian better latency
Lost Aquarian
We only have so many satellites for billions of people
Lost Aquarian too much space junk orbiting around the planet already
@Lost Aquarian satillites have a lot more limited capacity that fiber ever will.
holy fck, honestly until now i didn't know this. Im so amazed, im actually losing it. 14k km of cable under sea, what da f... really AWESOME and FASCINATING
as of right now there is about 350 000 km of submarine cables around the world, 22 times the equator length. sorry for necroposting, just wanted to amaze you even more xD
Pff been knowing this 4 years before the internet people thought it was an urban legend.. Ridiculous
lasvegasrockero good for you. Guess how many people care.
@@xsanguine at least 1 since u brought it up
@@lasvegasrockero want a trophy?
the misspelling of 'terabyte' as 'terabite' hurts so much to read.
stickievidz and it’s not even 160 terabytes, it’s 160 terabits.
"Dial up some gratitude"
Even she cringed at that...😶
Didn't know humans actually walked the full length of the cable to put it on the boat. That's a lot of shoes.
I mean yeah. Those people combined walked across the atlantic.
@@benjammin2020 r/technicallythetruth
This used to be my grandpa’s job. He has so many stories about living on the ship, traveling the world and working for at&t. It’s so cool to see what he’s actually talk about.
Cora N same
I would get too dizzy walking that cable around and around all day.
Mike B Wtf, kid? What does flat earthing have anything to do with getting dizzy from walking in a circle all day? Calm down, bud. XD
@Mike B Um, I think I meant walking in circles inside the tanks where they coil the cable on the ship, it doesn't look like more than about five to ten yards in circumference, for the walker, to me and is not a straight line. And it has nothing to do with your flat Earth. My Earth is not flat by the way...
Mike B. Seriously. That circle is way too big for anyone to get dizzy. I think this dudes a flat earther.
Why is this recommended to me after 3 years lol wtf
Hahaha the algorithm
keep in mind how much data is uploaded to youtube every minute.
Finally, a cable long enough to LAN with my buddy in Spain.
What I find crazy is how that tiny cable (which is what, 1-2 inches in diameter?) can carry all of the cross-continent communication at once... there must be billions of terabytes flowing through it every second, both ways! It’s weird. I would have expected something a lot thicker.
What’s even crazier is there’s only about 10 -15 fiber optic cables in that braid, carrying all of that information. I know that the TAT-14 cable that spans from New Jersey to Denmark has only 10 fiber optic cables in the braid. Those 10 cables essentially transmit all of the internet data from continental Europe to the US.
Fastest one is currently 160 terabits per second or 40 terabytes/s. I also thought it would be more but keep in mind everyone isn't using data every second.
James “Everyone isn’t using data every second” yeah only 90% of people
There are many, many transatlantic cables that make up part of a distributed network.
XMattingly that makes sense, any idea how many there are? Based on what James said, if they’re rated at 40-160 TB per second then there must be at least... 10 or 20?
What an amazing feat of engineering.
There has to be a more efficient way to get the cable into that giant reel.
J Smith probably cheaper to pay 15 people $19 an hour than to invest tens of millions developing a robot you are only going to use once every 25 years
@@ipeeinpools22 exactly right.
Hold on...I'm a union merchant mariner, please dont give any ideas to them. Gotta protect jobs.👍
you don't fix whats not broken!
J Smith humans are disposable. And they work.
It’s crazy to think that the TAT-14 transatlantic cable that spans from New Jersey to Denmark, is a braid of only 10 fiber optic cables that transmits all of the internet data between the US and continental Europe. The terminals on both sides are just some ordinary looking non-descript buildings that you’d never think housed such important equipment. It runs from Tuckerton, NJ to West Jutland, Denmark.
There's def more than just 1 transatlantic cable that handles internet traffic between the US and Europe. Just take a look at this map www.submarinecablemap.com/
What if a volcano popped up underneath the cable and destroyed it, do you have volcano insurance.
Laws of insurance state that you can't insure against a natural cause e.g. volcano eruption
@@vladpostolachi2221 Now, I would like to know how homeowner's insurance operate, considering how these companies claim to cover a wide variety of "natural causes."
@@vladpostolachi2221 you couldn't be more wrong
@@clodwolf how come?
@@vladpostolachi2221 My insurance paid out when the hail broke some windows.
We're laying down a central nervous system across the the planet.
It's human mycelium.
And ironically it's making the world of dumber.
@@Some0ne001 how so?
And connecting to a google server is like establishing a synaptic path
@@add859tankionline misinformation spreads quicker
I can't even imagine, going from a message to America taking 10 more than days to not even taking 10 minutes, basically overnight. It's really hard to overstate just how revolutionary this was.
True
2016: nope
2017: nope
2018: nope
2019: let's put this into everyone's recommend
all praise the youtube algorithm
Yup
2020 for me
For anyone curious, the actual cable capacity is 160 teraBITS… not 160 terabytes as they said or 160 "terabites" (this isn't a thing) as they spelled on-screen
People don't believe in satellites? Wtf is this comment section
Exactly what I’m wondering. Honestly it’s dumber than flat earthers, if that’s possible.
They're also faster than these underground cables, I believe
@Advocatus Diaboli I meant "fast" as in the time taken (eg ping), sorry for the confusion
@Advocatus Diaboli They are, because the glass fiber in the cables is only 2/3 the speed of light, while satellite travels at the speed of light
@Advocatus Diaboli at a 500km altitude, a telecommunications satellite wont have to send data much more further than the cable on ground (7900km). I'm too lazy to do the math right now but the distance is definitely small enough to be faster
0:38 The worker's face when the captain walks by...🤣
You could literally take down the whole world with a robot sub with some bolt cutters on the end of it.
That's still a tall order. But i bet there are research vessels you can rent.
That would be very hard to cut all of them at the same time and the internet would still work, It just wouldn't be as easy to access servers in other countries, and you can still have access through satellites, so governments would still have communication. Also they have ways to calculate exactly where the line is broken and a ship can go out and repair it in a day or more depending on how far out to sea they have to go.
There have been lines broken before just research it on Google. They fix them fairly quick.
So crazy what’s going on behind the scenes for all the seemingly simple things we do
The internet age really began in the 1850s. Telegraphs were digital. Just very slow. It still allowed instant global emails.
One cable one cut ..... all it takes
Oliver Hernandez future of presidents twitter war (after Nuclear has been disabled)
“I’m gonna cut your cable”
“No I’m gonna cut yours first”
(It’s only a matter of time who will cut first) lmao
Well... "Russian Spy Submarines Are Tampering with Undersea Cables..." (nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russian-spy-submarines-are-tampering-undersea-cables-make-internet-work-should-we-be )
Cutting this cable would harm ALL Governments around the world .
Ideally tapping into it would serve better .
Vulnerability is tremendous , and given the fact it is 99% of all communication???
We have more than one cable🤦♂️
Giovanni Tovar was a joke bro stop trying to act smart online chill out and get the joke
"...And it's a mission we enjoy doing for- CBS THIS MORNING"
LMAO
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
"Who is it?"
"CABLE GUYYYYY"
Call before you dig...
"That's cute" - Aliens
@3:41 someone spelled terabyte wrong.
bilbao
@Advocatus Diaboli Yeah, it's a little embarrassing for a news outfit as big as CBS to misspell a (somewhat) common word like that
Says a lot about journalists
It’s not terabyte either. It’s terabit.
Terabytes and terabits are different things!
Or when you receive a call that is likely a scammer, its most definitely coming to you thru the transatlantic cable from India, lmao
Sometimes. But there are a lot of Indian call centers in Canada now for some reason.
I'd think transpacific is more likely.
@@Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer without knowing the numbers, I couldn't comment on the probability.
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@barta235 really
I honestly had no idea about these cables. I’m 21 and always thought all information was transferred through satellites cause I never imagined someone could build such a long cable that crosses from one continent do you next across the ocean.
Satellites have WAY to high latency (delay/time for the data to travel to the sat, down to a data center, back up, back down to customer). Where as fiber is extremely low latency. Sartlink will be interesting though since it's using low orbit satellites, and people that have it now are already seeing speeds of 150-200 Mbps and latency that is pretty much on par with cable internet. And it will only get faster as they launch more satellites (they are launching 30+ a month)
This didn't pop up on home page I searched this specific video.
I must eat the forbidden ocean spaghetti
All that behind the scenes work does indeed benefit humanity. I question sometimes.
Good to know, when I get lost in the ocean I’ll just dig up a cable and follow it to a country. This will save my life.
We have cameras in refrigerators?
Brings back memories working on the USNS Zeus and USNS Albert J Myer. Made good money walking in circles, 12 on, 12 off, for days....
where do i apply lol
What's really astounding is that in 20 or 30 years this will be regarded as old ancient technology!!
Maybe not the technology scince glassfiber is pretty good but putting cables under the ocean could very well be outdated with technologies like Starlink.
the incredible cable spool in the ship is really something you don't see everyday, would loves to learn more how the cable laying ship functions and what's inside the whole mechanism.
About 98% of all telecommunications pass through submarine cables.
how many satallites are in space? what the fudge?
so satellites serve no purpose
@@Bernielcc Satellites do serve a purpose, but they can't take the volume of data a submarine cable can. Also, cables are more reliable.
satelites aren’t real. tell me how we launch a somerhing into space and it doesnt fall back down to earth
Flat earth
Colonel Sanders got tired of selling fried chicken and became boat captain
do they pickup the retired cables or just leave them littering the ocean?
Wow the first cool thing I've seen on the news.
Honestly thought the cable would be a lot thicker, it must be pretty durable
I'm glad that at 1:45 they put up a graphic showing a phone, bank, computer, email, and TV while they said cables let us use phones, banks, computers, email, and TV, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to comprehend what they were trying to tell me.
TeraBITE??? Lol. Ok.
This legitimately blew my mind. They spelled it wrong AND he said "terabyte". The actual cable will have a 160 terabit/s capacity.
1Minioner Lol. I caught that too. The world is getting dumber and dumber right before our eyes.
@@1Minioner and people be-leave in satellites yet this carries 98 percent of the load...
Nah those boomers have never heard of terabytes until that day.
blo me Define “be-leave”
160TB per second.. hearing this number while my connection in urban germany can’t even download faster than 5mb/s :(
Wohl eher dorf haha hab zwischen 20-25mb/s ;)
In my neck of the woods I'm lucky to see 1mb
@@roflman2122 Ne, ich wohne wirklich in der Stadt. Zwar nicht Frankfurt city und am Stadtrand, aber nicht aufm Dorf :D
Glasfaser liegt bis zur Mitte der Straße, ich wohne aber ganz hinten durch und da hat's wohl nicht mehr gereicht.
ich wohn auf dme land bei steam updates sind maximal 700kbits drinn
Wait, slow internet exist in developed nations?
Why there is a building in newyork that spies on the traffic
To correct both the misspelling and info in the video, the cable transmits 160 *Terabits* (not “terabites”) per second. That’s equal to 20 *Terabytes* per second. That’s like downloading hundreds of 4K movies in just one second.
So if you were to play an online game and one player was in us and other player was in Germany does it use undersea cables to connect each player or satellites?
Wow! That's amazing.
Makes me want to be more thankful
Try harder.
Nobody:
Crab: *snip snip*
😂😂😂
What is a "terrabite" at 3:40 ?? I know byte and bit, but bite?
160TBps not bad but can you play smoke the water?
Satellite communication sucks with massive initial data delays. I work in IT and have worked with 1 satellite internet, NEVER AGAIN. Nothing but problems. If you think wifi is the same or better, it's not. Wifi is setup on top of massive fast cabled networks.
Wait what? Do some people actually think wifi data is sent/received from a satellite?
Imagine what the sea robots have “seen” or just passed by. Diamonds ? Dead bodies ? Gold?
WassupItsMike! The kraken?
160 “Terabites”
😂😭
It's like they weren't sure if it was gonna be byte or bit so they just decided to be wrong on both sides
That Captain really balling with that outfit
the people sitting on the rolled cable have the trippiest job ever
How do I get the job where I just sit on the cable like those people.
I thought these undersea cables where half a meter thick? How can you get so much information through such a thin cable??
I just thought the same thing.
Satellites have too much latency, being that humans will never know how to transmit data faster than the speed of light. If it wasn't for fiber optic cables, we would be stuck at dial-up speeds.
Satellites cut latency by 20 percent so your point is invalid
light travels to a low orbit satellite faster then it does through a fiber optic cable, the problem is bandwidth.
@@miguellopez3392 exactly. Which is why spacex got approve to launch 11000 satellites for starlink. The expected bandwidth would be enough that even in the remote areas of Africa you could get on Google
@@michaelazelton9320 The longer latency is the primary difference between a standard terrestrial-based network and a geostationary satellite-based network. The round-trip latency of a geostationary satellite communications network can be more than 12 times that of a terrestrial based network.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Internet_access
I am amazed!
That’s insane that holding tank
*in *indian *accent
Hello this is john smith
Me "hangs up"
Could perhaps explain much of the ocean-floor life/corals being destroyed?
Here in the UK we still have lead cable in the ground😂🤣
1:06
How easy of a job can you get ffs how do I apply
I wouldn’t want it on my resume. It doesn’t really prove intelligence.
b8e71fcbe2e195c67d8d16734013d20f id write international submarine cable installation on the resume 😂
First step, drop out of high school.
Forget that job...come work with me if you want easy...I work for the state of NJ
Fake news! It's not 160 TByte/s, it's 160 Tbit/s...
And the misspelled Terabyte (Terabite) :D in 3:42
It's too bad these news networks don't do enough research
Send this video to anyone who thinks that satellites send data for servers.
So what purpose do satellites serve?
BERN Bernstein 90% of the earth does not have access to an internet connection. Satellites serve some areas with internet, but communications, GPS, scientific studies are more along the lines of satellite use.
@TruthIsABitterPill if there's no satellites, explain GPS
NPC 8265399497 He said sarellites, not satellites.
Bryon Letterman google earth cars. Same concept
Bryon Letterman gps is based off 3 of the closest radio communications towers nearest your phone that triangulate your position.... when you move far away from the furthest of the 3 you get a new closest tower and this is how it gives off your new location when you are moving....
Satellite gps would work world wide,
But go try it in on an area thats away from tech, you wouldnt have a signal
2:14 Mads Mikkelsen looks pretty young there
Informative!
And star link came along. The rest is history.
IT'S 2020. YOU DIDN'T SEARCH FOR THIS.
I did but not 2020 anymore
Still amazing
Kinda funny we still rely on old-school cables across the ocean. What happened to all these satellites we've been pumping into orbit the last 20 yrs?
God bless humanity!
I wonder how they do it to prevent the cable to be chewed on
We put an extra layer of steel tape 0.20 thick around the light weight cable add another layer of thick plastic high density poly for the finale layer. Steel tape keeps the single from transmitting out of the cable due to electrical flow though the conductor. This is only applied to shark infested areas. It's called SPA Nick name Fish Bite.
How dizzy you think they get?
Fantastic
Can give internet to other continents
Can't give Fiber optic internet to rural areas xD FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
not just rural, i live in NJ and still dont have it
@Honk Honkler Not a big deal considering the telecoms have already pocketed half a trillion of government and taxpayer money that was supposed to be used to make fiber more accessible. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANBM37PDjNYf3zleeef4iyhhEO0s8ULbpn-AyxY6aNxAdeMOw3ygFRa8gouQfAQaAHMxIcYjSUnuMWQfmetIbQpRSBMIj_GUDqtMzjRH4L-Ki2anMxGVWbHf4uxQ3F3WlAlPqaL6n4QV2xBbweMGIRw_vCoFb3OHVtdVOiuKAn1V&guccounter=2
nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/11/27/americans-fiber-optic-internet/
Those rural people don't bring money
I live in a town of about 500 and a new internet provider has pushed its way in. Upgraded the entire town to fiber optic, and every single house in the surrounding area. This is the third entire county they have begun replacing every inch of old wires with new fiber optic.
@@MrLoganFogt nice dude, it must be nice lol not having to worry about how many devices my internet can handle xD
3:42 They misspelled terabyte. Ironically while using a computer.
That guy holding the cable cross section when Mark commented and grabbed it talking about how thin it was; the guy looked scared that he was grabbing it, like he might drop or break it haha.
Fiber optic wears without cladding, even then you gotta be careful. Small cracks can compromise the signal and result in packet loss.
So what are satellites used for
That’s because space is fake.
"thats outstanding" "thats extraordinary" .. nah.. thats just human engineering :p
It is possible basically due to the modulation of information (bits) into light pulses and being able to transmit those pulses with very low loss. The possibility of sending information at the speed of light is what makes this possible.
It is pretty extraordinary
So it is a series of tubes
And the criminal Al Gore "invented" it. And melting glaciers and rising sea levels for profit, too.
He said it would take 10 days by ship in 1866. I hope he meant “between” England and Ireland and not the US. Because it would be 3 months each way, no?
who is lady anchor name of her??
That 160 terabyte per second cable facebook & Microsoft is almost incomprehensible.
Very nice video.
is bite correct in that context? why no y?
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