GEO5JMH@cms1.ucs.leeds.ac.uk (Jeremy M. Harmer) (09/06/90)
Can anyone tell me how I can find out the routes of all the submarine cables in the world (yes, I actually need it :-) )... Back on the subject of the '#' on keypads, an employee of British Telecom when giving a lecture on the use of a new phone system referred to this as "the GATE symbol"...! Thanks.
julian@bongo.uucp (Julian Macassey) (09/07/90)
In article <11795@accuvax.nwu.edu>, GEO5JMH@cms1.ucs.leeds.ac.uk (Jeremy M. Harmer) writes: > Can anyone tell me how I can find out the routes of all the submarine > cables in the world (yes, I actually need it :-) )... I have a list that is not up to date, it is from "Telephony's Dictionary" by Graham Langley (1982). I know since then there has been a fair amount of fiber optic laying. Also I would imagine that some cables have been decommissioned. You could also try to locate a friendly soul at AT&T Long Lines. List of Submarine Cables ADONIS, APHRODITE, ARIANE France to Greece to Cyprus to Lebanon AEGUS Greece to Crete ALPAL Algeria to Majorca to Spain AMITE France to Morocco ANNIBAL France to Tunisia ANTINEA Sengal to Morocco ANZCAN Australia to New Zealand to Canada APOLLO Greece to Cyprus APNG Australia to Papua New Guinea ARTEMIS France to Greece ASEANIS Indonesia to Singapore ASEANPS Philippines to Singapore ATLANTIS Portugal to Brazil BAPI Spain to Italy BARGEN Spain to Italy BARO Spain to Italy BER USA to Bermuda BRACAN Brazil to Canary Islands BRUS Brazil to USA CAM Portugal to Madeira CANBER Canada to Bermuda CANTAT UK to Canada COLOMBUS Spain to Venezuela COMPAC Canada to Fiji/New Zealand/Australia ECSC Japan to China EL FATAH France to Libya FLORICO USA to Puerto Rico FRATERNITE Senegal to Ivory Coast HAW 1, 2, 3 USA to Hawaii IOCOM Maylaysia to India JASC Japan to Russia MARPAL France to Italy MARTEL France to Israel MAT 1 Spain to Italy MED 1 Italy to Malta MED 2 Sicily to Crete MED 3 Italy to Greece OKITAI Okinawa to Japan to Taiwan OLUHO Okinawa to Philippines to Hong Kong PENBAL Spain to Baleric Islands PENCAN Spain to Canary Islands PHILSIN Alias for ASEANPS SAT 1 Portugal to South Africa SCOTICE, ICECAN UK (Scotland) to Iceland to Canada SEACOM Singapore to Maylaysia to Hong Kong, then on to Papua New Guinea to Australia SHEFA Shetland Islands to Faeroe Islands ST T USA to US Virgin Islands TAGIDE France to Portugal TASMAN Australia to New Zealand TAT 1 to 8 Europe to North America TELPAL Israel to Italy TRANSCAN Canary Islands (inter-island) TRANSPAC 1 Hawaii to Japan to Philippines TRANSPAC 2 Hawaii to Japan This is not a complete list. Many small cables have been omitted. For example, there is a cable between Key West, Florida and Havana, Cuba. In the Telephony's Dictionary, there are diagrams showing where these cables run and the number of circuits they carry. Students of Geography, History and Politics will have fun with these cables. Some of them are between colonial powers and old colonies, some are obviously for trade purposes and some for political expediency. SAT 1 was set up between South Africa and Portugal because the South Africans were reluctant to have circuits running across possibly hostile Black Africa. Portugal was chosen as the European landing country because of its political neutrality and the old trade connections between Portugal and South Africa. According to the Dictionary, the first significant submarine cable was laid in 1850. The first major submarine cable was TAT 1; it carried 50 circuits. TAT 1, laid in 1956, has been decommissioned. As I recall the last trans-Atlantic cable laid was a fiber optic jobbie with a 40,000 circuit capacity. Julian Macassey, n6are julian@bongo.info.com ucla-an!denwa!bongo!julian N6ARE@K6IYK (Packet Radio) n6are.ampr.org [44.16.0.81] voice (213) 653-4495