Amazon Builds First Solo Subsea Cable Linking Maryland To Ireland (aboutamazon.com)
- Reference: 0179962894
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/04/1516239/amazon-builds-first-solo-subsea-cable-linking-maryland-to-ireland
- Source link: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/transatlantic-subsea-cable-us-ireland-fastnet-aws
The cable will carry data at speeds exceeding 320 terabits per second. Amazon did not disclose construction costs but expects the system to begin operations in 2028. The company is burying the cable roughly one and a half meters deep across the ocean floor. Installers will bore a horizontal tunnel from shore to shore. Amazon has added protective steel wiring to guard against ship anchors and deliberate sabotage.
[1] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/transatlantic-subsea-cable-us-ireland-fastnet-aws
"deliberate sabotage" (Score:3)
Sad to say but these days that is a real possibility.
Why do we, a supposedly intelligent species, make war rather than cooperate ? If you think that I am naive - please explain.
Re: (Score:3)
Because some members of our species have not evolved sufficiently to understand what "enough" looks like.
It's the same mental disease that creates billionaires who already have more material wealth than ten generations of their progeny could ever spend, and yet they still have the drive to literally starve children in order to get tax breaks they don't need to aide in accumulating more wealth they don't need.
Buried? (Score:3)
Where in the source article does it say anything about "burying the cable roughly one and a half meters deep" or "bore a horizontal tunnel"?! If they were going to bury this, surely they would trench, not bore. And it's not clear they are burying it at all. The infographic seems to show it on the surface of the ocean floor. And it shows that the cable is one and a half INCHES THICK, not meters deep. SMDH.
Error in summary (Score:2)
I strongly suspect an error in the summary. I donâ(TM)t think itâ(TM)s technologically possible to horizontally bore a fiber conduit 1.5 meters deep across the entire Atlantic Ocean. Someone please explain whatâ(TM)s actually happening here.
Re: (Score:2)
Yeah that sounds off. Probably mean digging at coastal shallower waters then just having it lay on the floor elsewhere, that's the standard.
Maryland you say? (Score:3)
So an American company will be connecting Ireland, one the countries in Europe with the highest concentraction of data centers, to Maryland, where NSA has their headquarters with a super high speed fiber? yeah, nah, as a European I strongly object to this idea. I long for the good ol' days when the Americans were our closest friends.
Re: (Score:2)
> So an American company will be connecting Ireland, one the countries in Europe with the highest concentraction of data centers, to Maryland, where NSA has their headquarters with a super high speed fiber? yeah, nah, as a European I strongly object to this idea. I long for the good ol' days when the Americans were our closest friends.
As an American, I miss the days when we could at least pretend that we were our own friends. Now it just seems like we're determined to make enemies even of ourselves. It makes me think the allies and friends thing was all a giant hoax, and we've finally gotten tired of trying to keep up the facade.
Re:Maryland you say? (Score:5, Interesting)
Maryland is also across the Potomac River from Loudon County, Virginia; which lies to the west of Washington DC.
Loudon County, Virginia is where AWS us-east-1 region datacenters are, as well as AWS GovCloud.
Go to Google Maps and draw a line that goes west-northwest from Loudon County to the Atlantic Ocean, and then a direct line to Cork, Ireland - you will intersect with the Atlantic Ocean in Maryland.
No conspiracy here, just as straight of a line plotted on a sphere that they could manage to reduce material and right-of-way costs.
Re: (Score:2)
That's assuming we live on a flat earth. A shorter line between County Cork and the US would have the US terminus much further north.
Re: (Score:2)
No, that's assuming (as they literally make clear in their post) that Amazon want the connection to go to their largest east coast datacenter rather than bum fuck nowhere like you're suggesting.