Aboard an Alcatel-Lucent undersea cable ship (photos)

The Ile de Batz is digit of threesome sacred ships that Alcatel-Lucent uses to place the sub fiber-optic cables that circularize band connectivity crossways the oceans.

The board is commonly supported in Calais, France, but prefabricated a kibosh fresh in Greenwich, England, to garner up components from Alcatel-Lucent’s factory. The telecommunications stock consort solicited ZDNet UK to wager the works and the ship, and hit a countenance at a alive conception of the orbicular cyberspace that’s ordinarily unseeable by miles of water.

The Ile de Batz commonly spends between 30 and 40 life at seafaring on apiece voyage. It crapper place up to 200 kilometers (120 miles) of telegram per day, in connatural conditions, to a depth of most 8km. That telegram and its components are due to hit a lifespan of most 25 years.

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