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booi • 11/20/2024 • 2 replies • view on HN

Generally it can be fixed in days. They raise it from the sea floor and splice in a new cable section.


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scheme271 • 11/21/2024

True but ships and crews with the equipment to do the repairs are limited. It's possible to overwhelm the repair capacities. Also, it takes time to physically travel between cuts so while cuts in the Baltic might take a week or two to fix, a cut in the Atlantic and one in the Baltic may take a week or two just for travel.

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mistyvales • 11/20/2024

Crazy that you can splice optical cable..

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