The Cables Beneath
Things with no place
How does this exist in spatial relation to other knowledge?
This arrangement is schematic. Distance and direction on this diagram carry no physical meaning — it shows how these things relate, not where they are. Nothing here is measured position, live telemetry or a simulation.
Programmes1
The organisation that flew the missions, across years.
Ideas and conditions24
Something with no place at all: a condition, a plan, an idea.
- 2Africa
- The 1858 Atlantic telegraph cable
- MAREA
- SEA-ME-WE 5
- TAT-1
- TAT-8
- The cable chokepoint
- Latency as a physical quantity
- Redundancy and restoration in the cable network
- The Egyptian cable land crossing
- Telecom Egypt
- Cyrus West Field
- David Payne
- The shift of cable ownership to content providers
- The turbidity current
- Locating and repairing a cable fault
- The cable landing station
- The erbium-doped fibre amplifier
- The submarine optical repeater
- Cable power feed equipment
- The submarine fibre-optic cable
- The Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables
- The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- The cable ship