Last month… 2 powerful earthquakes hit southern Taiwan. As a result, some deep sea fiber optic telecommunications cables were damaged causing phone and internet outages and slowdowns throughout East Asia.
Surprisingly… I was never affected that I could tell.
Over the last couple weeks, I’ve found myself thinking about how they would go about fixing those cables… and today I happened across an article answering this question.
How Do You Fix An Undersea Cable?
About how I figured… but I sure didn’t realize that the robot could find the damaged area… wow.
