John's probably seen this but I think it addresses power on cables and branching nodes (which are just optical /roadm devices)
https://youtu.be/H9R4tznCNB0 On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 22:40 John Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: > It appears that Jerry Cloe <je...@jtcloe.net> said: > >-=-=-=-=-=- > > > >it look like it was completely at sea, but it would kind of make sense > >to leave them at sea if you could put a router there. > > > >First thing that comes to mind is power, how would you power them? > > Undersea cables have had power for repeaters since TAT-1 in 1956. I > think we can consider that to be a solved problem. > > R's, > John >
