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| | Oversimplified Overview of Undersea Cable Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | It was standard for cable systems, especially the longest and most expensive ones, to be planned, financed and operated by carriers "consortia", which often had as many as 20-30 members, each contributing towards the investment in a well-defined way, depending on their foreseen requirement for capacity. |
 | | The main source of problems with submarine cables comes from external sources such as fishing and anchors, and the damage is either via compression, when a heavy weight hits a cable, or via dragging, and, in the limit, breakage. |
 | | Since the early 1980s submarine cable has been buried to a depth of typically 1 meter in areas where threats from anchors or fishing can be anticipated, and, indeed they avoid anchorages used by deep-sea vessels as much as possible. |
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