On Jun 25, 2013, at 9:38 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
this I thought included the capabilities to drag the fiber/line into the hull for 'work' to be done... I'd note that introducing signal loss on the longhaul fiber seems 'risky', you'd have to know (and this isn't hard I bet) the tolerances of the link in question and have a way to stay inside those tolerances and not introduce new splice-points/junctions/etc and be careful for the undersea cable power (electric) requirements as well.
Kind of makes one think about the spate of high-profile submarine cable breaks over the past couple of years in a different light, doesn't it? ;>
and yea, why not just work with the landindstation operators to use the existing monitoring ports they use? (or get a copy of the monitor ports)
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