Seacom on track

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Seacom on track

The construction of SEACOM’s 15,000 km fibre optic undersea cable, linking southern and east Africa, Europe and south Asia, is on schedule and set to go live as planned in June 2009.

 

[Weasley]

sweet

 

[kaaskop]

Oi this must be interesting to work on the ship. What happens if they get bad weather with swells of say 5m. How fast can a ship lay the cable 5km/h?

 

[biltonguy]

go seacom, go seacom!!!

 

[kaaskop]

For those thats interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOyKdJWPlZY

 

[mr.B]

For those thats interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOyKdJWPlZY

I wish youtube wasn't blocked at work

 

[Vegeta]

I wish youtube wasn't blocked at work

I wish p2p wasn't blocked at work

 

[morkhans]

Good news!

 

[Shake&Bake]

Rock on Seacom!

 

[superfly]

I'm still amazed at how these thousands of kilometres of cable can be laid on the ocean bed...

 

[InTheCube]

A well written article... good work.

 

[Shake&Bake]

I'm still amazed at how these thousands of kilometres of cable can be laid on the ocean bed...

The following Wiki entry I found really informative, as the idea of these cables boggled my mind.

A good read, for those who are perhaps looking to get some more info on the history and construction of these cables.

Link

EDIT: Also keep up to date with Seacom's progress on the official site.

 

[cookiemonster]

privately funded == on track

 

[War_Lord]

privately funded == on track

QFT

 

[Just_Ice]

I always knew this was the cable to bet on

 

[ShaunSA]

go seacom, go seacom!!!

I can just imagine your pom-poms

 

[.Froot.]

I'd hope that worst case scenario, they are on schedule with the laying....
Best case, almost done [I wish]...

 

[Tanarri]

I always knew this was the cable to bet on

But did you?

Good work Seacom!

 

[nictron]

This is better, fact based progress based reporting.

Not this will happen someday reporting!

 

[keng]

privately funded == on track

Exactly. Imagine if DOC was involved. Not that they didn't try their best to sink the whole idea