It was Monday, May 9, 2011 when Globe subscribers panicked after a sudden interruption of the company's landline and internet services. Later, it was found that telecommunication firm’s submarine transmission lines were damaged by a surge of submarine currents.
It’s not a secret though, that deep within our seas, lie miles and miles of fiber optic cables that are responsible for handling all our telecommunication activities everyday.
This complex web of inches-thick lines carries our text messages and emails every millisecond. And just when we thought, that we are now living in a wireless era, the image below speaks a lot that we are indeed still wired.
While services have resumed already, Globe officials assured subscribers that they have now looked into the matter.
“For some reasons hindi po natin masabi, something happens undersea so we just consider this as an act of God. We just really want to say our sincerest and deep apologies sa lahat ng naapektohang subscribers po natin sa Visayas Mindanao area,” Yoly Crisanto, Corporate Communications Head of Globe Telecom said.
In a Follow up report on Cebu Daily News, Crisanto said that their technical team is working round the clock to solve the matter.
Despite this unfortunate event however, it is interesting to know that the Philippines through Globe will become the exclusive landing point of an underwater fiber optic line from the Southeast Asian Japan Cable System come the year 2013.
But how do telecommunication companies like Globe maintain these complicated infrastructures? I mean, we understand the complexity that VECO technicians face when repairing electrical lines, but fixing a cable that sits on earth bed hundreds of kilometers below the sea? - source
I’ve scoured the net to see how international companies do it.
Video Of Underwater Cable Installation in the 1940s
CGI Representation Of How Undersea Cables Are Installed
How Miles and Miles of Fiber Optic Lines Are Brought To The Seas
This Is How They Repair A Broken Underwater Cable
An Undersea Cable Installation Contractor
0 comments:
Post a Comment