On 07/24/2012 10:02 AM, James Knott wrote:
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
That underwater cable network is used for both phone and Internet
communication, since phone systems not seem to be converted to
digital to go through the cables to give more "lines" of
communication between countries
????
Are analog trunks still in use anywhere? The phone system has been
digital for many years, long before there was an Internet. It'd have
to be an extremely old cable to require analog trunks. Anything
running over fibre would most certainly be digital.
They still have the cables and they are used. Mostly they are used as
digital trunk lines, but not every one has been converted do to their
age. The expense of laying a new fiber cable across a large body of
ocean/sea is something that slows up the process of many parts of the
world getting the better/faster connections. The poorer the country, or
the less number of potential users of the service, the longer it will
take for the giant communication companies to spend the type of money
needed to give these users the type of service many of us enjoy. Europe
has a better broadband system than most of the USA does. I saw a
program for places like the Netherlands and other European countries
where they have a very large section of their country with fiber to the
home and they have many different companies to choose from for
broadband. With that large competition for the broadband market, their
Internet prices for 50 MB/s bandwidth is lower than my area of the USA
for a 5 to 10 MB/s access. We have just two options. Cable modem
service or a DSL service. We pay $50+ a month for either. On some
science TV programming, they showed services for as little as $15 a
month for the same services. It all comes down to how good is their
trunk system and how the marketing controls over those trunk lines are
regulated. For countries like New Zealand, they have to rely on a
limited trunk cable on the ocean floor. I would wonder if it was
possible to run a trunk line from their nation to Australia. Would it
give them more access, or is Australia using the same trunk cable system
as well.
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