Re:Subsea Cable to Connect Asia, Europe, and North America T...
by dustintrex on Friday December 24, 2021 @09:56AM
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Interesting. I naively expected it to take the shortest/great circle route from Europe straight across northern Russia to Japan, but no, it actually loops the other way around the pole via Iceland and Canada.
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Re:Subsea Cable to Connect Asia, Europe, and North America T...
by fennecfoxen on Friday December 24, 2021 @10:42AM
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Looks like there would be fewer opportunities to stop and connect to existing networks if you went that way.
Re:Subsea Cable to Connect Asia, Europe, and North America T...
by Sami_Lehtinen on Monday December 27, 2021 @03:13AM
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Original route plan was exactly that, but there are reason why that route wasn't taken. This plan has been open for a decade aka ROTACS. But Russia started to build their own cable Polar Express - https://www.arctictoday.com/work-on-a-russian-trans-arctic-f...