We don’t know about you but yesterday’s video about how fiber optic cables work just made us more curious. Check out how the cables are made and laid across the sea.
In the above video we see how fiber optic strands are manufactured, including how the draw tower mentioned in yesterday’s video works. Once the strands are manufactured, where do they go and how are they used? In the video below we see Alcatel-Lucent’s Ile de Sein, one of the largest and most powerful cable laying ships in the world. Check out the video to see cable storage wells that look like small stadiums.
Finding out how the cables are made and what kind of planning and machinery it takes to lay them across the ocean is just as interesting as how they work.
How It’s Made: Fiber Optics [YouTube]
Undersea Cable [YouTube]
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