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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Is Despoiling a Tiny Coastal Village. The... by m463 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:22AM (#24221098)
What do they even do in that building? It's a cable - does it need to be manned? guarded?
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Is Despoiling a Tiny Coastal Village. The... by sbierwagen on Thursday August 20, 2020 @02:15PM (#24226506)
Routers, the actual optical terminals, high voltage power supplies for the inline optical amplifiers, (Undersea fiber cables need to repeat the signal every few hundred km, and those repeaters need power) a surprisingly large number of batteries needed for the gap between power loss and the backup generator getting up to speed, a fair amount of empty floor in case they want to add more equipment later, etc. That 2,700ft^2 runs out fast.