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How important is the submarine cable? Cut off the United States can lose 10 trillion dollars a day!

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How important is the submarine cable? Cut off the United States can lose 10 trillion dollars a day!

Countries will inevitably fight with each other, and most countries will not get involved in other countries' strife to maintain peace.

But in the war between Ukraine and Russia, the United States is in which frequently intervenes, resulting in a more frosty relationship between Russia and the United States.

Russia recently finally could not stand it and issued a warning to the U.S. provocations: if the U.S. intervenes in this matter again, it will contain them within 24 hours.

What does Russia mean by "containment" of the U.S.?

 

What is the submarine cable?

According to the ZMS cable team's review of information, Russia's reference to containing the United States lifeline is most likely a reference to submarine cables.

Submarine cables, which are wires used for communications, are cable conductors wrapped in an insulating material and laid on the sea floor for telecommunications transmission.

The submarine cable consists of polyethylene layers, polyester resin, aluminum tubes, paraffin fiber bundles, and many other materials.

Submarine cables are made of very demanding materials and need to be structurally strong and light.

The first metal that comes to mind for light materials is aluminum.

But in the submarine can not use aluminum metal, seawater will be chemically reacted with it to cause the cable can not be used. So a submarine cable has a high quality, both to overcome the external environment, but also to ensure the stability of information transmission, just the material the big effort, generally able to use for about 25 years.


 

Submarine cables are divided into two types of on-shore and offshore equipment, and the division of labor between the two types of equipment is also different.

The onshore equipment will package all the data, images and voice, etc. for transmission together.

The submarine equipment is mainly used for signal processing, sending, and receiving.

With the advancement of technology, nowadays most of the submarine cables are fiber optic cable transmission, which is not only used for the transmission of Internet data, but also has powerful cloud computing capabilities, and is also the medium for network transmission between countries around the world.

Do not underestimate the submarine cable, the connection between countries, financial, stock and other information rely on it, you can also call it the road to economic connectivity.

 

The U.S. submarine cable was cut, 1 day will lose 10 trillion dollars!

Submarine cables play a huge role in the global Internet era as a tool for transmitting the information.

Submarine cables were first invented in 1850, 100 years before the emergence of the Internet.

Currently, there are 500 submarine cables around the world.

Submarine cables, which play a huge role in international communications, transmit more than 90% of the world's communication data, and more than 40 countries rely on fiber optic cables for foreign economic information communication.

 

In 1970, the United States spent $30 million to create a submarine fiber optic.

The cost of just one fiber optic is so high, not to mention the amount of value it creates.

The global cable, which carries a huge value of information, holds the virtual economic lifeblood.

 

If the U.S. submarine cables were cut

First, the U.S. network could be disconnected and unable to conduct virtual economic transactions.

The U.S. financial industry would be devastated, with an estimated loss of $10 trillion a day!

The nation's information technology would also be in a state of paralysis, with defense combat information unable to receive signals.

The United States, as the giant of the submarine cable, naturally knows its importance and will often send troops to patrol the sea to ensure the security of the cable.

 

But there have been experiences of cables being cut in 2018.

After the country of Mauritania's submarine fiber optic cable was cut, it was as if it evaporated from the world and was never heard from again.

A small African country can't afford to have its submarine cable cut off to bring harm, so a war between two countries and a cut-off submarine cable would be a fatal blow.

It is likely to lead to war equipment, such as aircraft and other important combat tools, can not receive signals.

Experts say: If the submarine cable is damaged, the global Internet could be plunged into darkness and fear.

 

Submarine cables are vulnerable

Since the United States often send troops to the station, why does Russia dares to directly put words to cut off the U.S. cable?

Although the U.S. and Russia are indistinguishable in terms of strength, each country is different in what it specializes in.

Russia has the largest nuclear submarine in the world with powerful surveying capabilities.

After years of detection, it must have mastered the laying point of the U.S. fiber optic cable before it dares to directly release the word.




 

Is the submarine cable easy to cut?

Although the advantages of submarine cables and fiber optics are great, itself is very fragile.

Want to "survive" on the seabed, it needs to be wrapped in a variety of external materials to achieve the ability to prevent corrosion, shark, anchor, etc.

Submarine fiber optic cable is partly laid in the deep sea area and partly laid in the shallow sea area.

Although the internal optical fiber is heavily protected, it cannot withstand the impact of earthquakes.

For example, in 2006, a strong earthquake occurred in Taiwan, resulting in damage to the cable in several countries, and the domestic Internet can not even access foreign sites.

It is not invulnerable to damage once it encounters human impact.

 

Submarine cables are difficult to repair

Laying a cable under the sea is an extremely difficult task, requiring a lot of money and time to lay a good cable.

And compared to laying a cable, repairing a broken cable under the sea is even more difficult!

First, the world's longest cable currently reaches 39,000 km, connecting more than 30 countries.

If the signal is suddenly interrupted, it is difficult to find out where the cable is damaged or broken.

If the damaged part is in the shallow sea area, the repair work can be done manually.

If the damage is in the deep sea, it is a big job to find the damage.

 

Why lay cables on the sea floor?

There may be many people who do not quite understand, since the high cost of repair is difficult, can not lay the cable on land?

The main reason is that the submarine environment without the interference of external light and magnetic waves, relatively speaking, higher signal-to-noise, making the transmission speed faster.

We live on the earth, the ocean occupies an area much larger than the land, and 71% of the earth's surface is the ocean. On land, humans have built various buildings and buried many pipelines underground, which have been developed to a very small extent, so it is relatively easier to lay fiber optic cables under the ocean than on land.

 

Many countries are far away from each other, most of them are across the sea, want to connect the land communication is more difficult, so from the bottom of the sea connection will be more convenient.

With the development of technology, offshore wind power generation, information transmission, oil extraction, and many other operations are slowly being carried out.

In the future, submarine cables and fiber optic cables may not only be used for the transmission of information but may also play a more important value.

Submarine cables are extremely important to every country, and this time Russia has spoken out to warn the United States, probably because they can't stand the behavior of the United States and show that they are not easy to bully.

After seeing Russia's attitude, the United States will also weigh the pros and cons.

But what is the outcome of the follow-up, I hope that each country can be peaceful and move forward together toward a better future.

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