Inside the Beach House Connecting the World’s Internet
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2018
- We visit Denmark and talk to a marine maintenance manager to learn more about how undersea cables are crucial to data transportation.
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This man seems like the perfect person for this job.
Toni Lähdekorpi ikr
Loves it ay haha
He's so relaxed
Well he said it. If you can't handle the pressure you should find another job.
Ops people deserve a box of chocolates, every day.
The man who is responsible on the internet is using ...Internet Explorer.
He's sitting right next to where all the data comes in, so I guess that's the only place where it would actually work at a normal pace.
You'd be surprised how often Internet Explorer is used in enterprise applications. A lot of legacy apps work best on IE or dont work at all if you dont use it
He died ,his son Edge took over
[Surprised pikachu face]
All the US federal gov uses IE
It blows my mind how small the cords are and, they provide so much and how fast they travel the world. Truly amazing
SquidCookies Electrons man
nmp lol uh, *no*
nmp lol *photons
Jimmy neutron
Sure is!
I worked at a data centre for 4 years. It's an a amazing job. People just don't realise what it takes to get your computer or phone to connect to the internet.
SW Wilts, indeed - it is the same for any product or service.
Or what it takes to keep making electricity to run it all.
Do you frequently pray too that nothing serious happen? no? its only me then.
SW Wilts
Correction:
*people don't know what it takes for their porn to get to their computers/phones 😂😂
O yes they do and they love the behind the scene stuff and ear dropping on protocols chit chat
7:02 the fiber cable that takes all that traffic across the Atlantic isn’t any bigger than the cable serving my modem at home. That’s remarkable…
Yeah, it's just fancier modems on the ends... light can transmit an incredible amount of information with wavelength-division multiplexing.
There is more then one strand of fiber in those cables and power cable is ran with it to power the repeaters that are on the line every so many miles to maintain signal integrity.
Scott Belleri I
Nirossen ah your right to say it’s not remarkable since you know how we feel mr brain! Thanks 👍🏻
Most of that is cladding, too. The actual transmission media is just 9 micrometers thick.
Just imagine the speed at this station....
jdmderick gonna build my man cave there. Well, my adolescent male cave. You get what I mean.
jdmderick it’s not that impressive compared to something like a carrier hotel. This is just one sea cable.
A single "cable" with a design capacity of over 9 Tbit/s. Many peering points and carrier hotels have more, but this is - as you said - a single cable ring.
jdmderick no lags on Phub
TheNewTimeNetwork “Many” carrier hotels? More like all. If you only had the capacity of one sea cable at a land based carrier hotel you’d be out of business.
A practical man, drives a Ford
In Denmark
Bless his heart
Maybe his work car
cars in Denmark are taxed at 150% their value. Buying a car requires a considerable budget, hence why cycling and environmentally friendly alternatives have developed so much. In Denmark executive cars are a rare sight, indeed many cars are quite old compared to other western European countries. Furthermore, the danish society is pretty homogeneous and egalitarian and there's no much visible difference between wage classes and it's considered rude and poor to show off your financial wealth.
Hopefully he sells it, and gets himself something decent :)
.@@kap1526 Your disregard to "@Fiskur's" input notwithstanding: Anything wrong if he doesn't? 😒
i think ne NEEDS a simple car as to not to clog his brain
I’m watching this on RUclips which is an internet site so that means I’m watching where I get my internet on my internet
Internet-ception
A very underrated comment
next level: let your friend team viewer-ing to watch it again with you. now you have perfect control over him
Back in the late 1980s-90s, I used to manufacture undersea fibre-optic cables. It's a fairly straightforward process, but takes several stages, At 3:16 he shows a well armoured cable, and we sometimes added and even thicker stage of armouring, which you wouldn't be able to hold in one hand. For most of my career I joined two cable ends together, mainly in a repeaterless connection [unamplified]. The signal loss had to be practically zero as equipment measured the signal from the opposite ends of the cable. I was involved in the UK - Denmark cable and one of my repeaterless joints held the record for minimal signal loss, at the time. I have no idea whether it has been broken since. I sometimes miss it as it was a great job and you knew you were doing something really important for world communications.
Do you ever have to unplug it and plug it back in again?
yes.
but also, ideally (hopefully) no.
you typically just want to leave it there undisturbed once it's running smoothly as if you poke at it in the wrong way or place it can attenuate the signal.
@@BattousaiHBr And millions of people will start panicking when Facebook goes down.
South Park!!
BattousaiHBr Well-said 👍
@@BattousaiHBr these cables are expected for 20-25 years anyway. so it goes down anywa
He is MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD
In the cyberworld that is.😂😂😂
Only in your world.
@@KenSharp he could intercept millions of credit card and social security numbers.. so i guess you're wrong
What about end to end encryption. No credit card is being transmitted unencrypted today
Dont forget that there are people that manage that data and connections going over these cables.
Guys Guys Guys.. calm down this is filmed in Denmark, and in Jylland for god's sake. There is no need for armed guards, or a fully militarized perimeter.
Lmao there will be now
Vinh Le You obviously don't know you shouldn't try to fuck over the Danish.
Men de har brug for det nu da folk ved at det er der
But you should have some defence against drunk guys running into the field... I mean base, and pull the plug or something equally stupid. ;P
TinFoilVeteran , why do you want to disclose the location . That was irresponsible act .
this is one of those moments when i stop for a second and appreciate how cool internet actually is
this thin cable made of glass on the bottom of the ocean connects me to every place in the world, to any person in the world, to any information in the world
it's fucking rad
and all the memes of course
There should be a movie about this man.
“How I turned the entire world on each other being a troll using the internet”
Cayden season 9 of South Park
But he just controlling one station. There are a lot of "cable station" out there
They made one " Ralph breaks the internet "
He has no more ability than anyone else really. We're all connected to those same cables.
What your 7 years old ?
"The guardian of the internet"
Fantastic video and I love when the public is made aware that wireless depends on physical access. Wireless is a tool not the solution. Thank you all who keep the links up and running.
well for now at least lol, spacex has finally begun lauching their internet sattellites.
@@BattousaiHBr Problem with that is latency issues, cables still reign supreme due to their ability to transfer data at such speed and latency, something you are currently unable to do with sat internet, even if it's SpaceX' program - which still serves a good purpose, but they're not replacing anything, just helping those who do not have access.
@@lele-wp2hs i work with telecoms and latency has nothing to do with the issue spacex will face, their biggest issue will be weather interference. higher frequency signals suffer a lot of attenuation from bad weather.
you are used to high orbit satellites (such as geostationary orbit) and that's why latency is terrible, but the spacex ones are very low orbit and will provide very good latency. in fact, because light travels at ~98% speed through air but only ~2/3 through optical fibers, for longer distance destinations you'd theoretically get better latency through spacex's satellite constellation than through existing intercontinental cables.
.@@BattousaiHBr What are the probabilities of them getting hit by meteors and even better, turning into one themselves?°
@@maazkalim it will certainly happen every once in a while, which will result in the effective nonrecoverable destruction of the satellite, but it doesn't happen very often and the network is designed to handle a bit of failover. there is no risk of them falling and hitting someone in the head because they are going too fast and would be incinerated on reentry due to the air pressure.
also because the satellites are very low orbit, they will lose altitude and burn up on reentry in a few years anyway, which means they will be constantly relaunching new ones for replacement.
All this effort, money, science and 90% of that data is porn, memes and unboxing videos((
Cat videos
The Archeologists of the future will be having fun unearthing this part of history!
90% Stop watching porn dude
Mostly spam. Like your comment.
The 90% you speak of is only the tip of the iceberg
4:39 - words for any IT person to live by.
Wow. You're here?? Love your videos btw 🙃
Oh what GTOger! I watch your vids! Haha funny seeing this old comment as this video was recommended to me today.
One part that wasn't mentioned that i think a lot of people aren't aware of:
Most fiber deployments like that are not just firing a single stream of data (currently up to 100 Gbps) down a fiber, but use multiplexing (usually Dense Wave Division Multiplexing, DWDM) to fire many streams down the same fiber on different wavelengths. Last i looked at it, my old employer used gear capable of 6.4 Tbps per fiber pair.
spot on. it's very interesting how can be loaded right up
That’s also very expensive. What is the latency like tho
@@Tkb135 Packet switched internet technology is actually very cheap considering the amount of people and data served.
Its a SERIES OF TUBES!!!
Thx, I have tought this for a while now
This guy is so dramatic, I kinda like his entusiasm.
i hope that was sarcasm lol
My Single Troll Hypothesis: All internet trolls are actually just this one man, pranking the hell out of all of us.
Whoa...
So how can we be sure you're also not one of his "avatars"?
Boring
So if aliens wanted to invade us, they know which 5 cables to disconnect
dinesh bhat they made the cables
what's the use of sattelite, is it really exist?
@@jaysolano8764 it was a lie from the very start
.@@jaysolano8764 does it really* There! FTFY ☺️
On the note of utmost sincerity: That depends.
Are you a fanboy of public-figures like Musk, or..?
@@polvocorrupto wow thank you man. I am a map data collector working in Government. I always noticed that if I am in mountainous area I got no signal via sattelite with my gadget although it is an open are with no trees still I will got stay close with nearby cell towers.
I worked with a fellow who operated heavy equipment and accidentally cut into a Department of Defense fiber optic cable while working near a large military installation. It wasn't a good day for him or his coworkers. Within minutes, lots of unhappy soldiers holding automatic weapons showed up to have a heart to heart talk with them. While they were on the ground, spread eagled with guns pointed at them. Luckily for him, he was cleared of any wrongdoing. But the incident gave him a new respect for security personnel on military bases.
Good job like the fact that he mentioned the biggest misconception of the internet is that everyone thinks it's all sattelite now.
I wonder if he's seen that IT Crowd episode where Jen shows off the internet.
The production quality and the narration of this video are fantastic. I found my self with a sense of awe while watching the video even though this was not new information for me. Which I think is very impressive. Also reading about this type of thing can't replace seeing 7:01 how minuscule the cable actually is supplying such a significant part of the internet to a continent.
It still amazes me that the first transatlantic phone line (TAT-1) wasn’t completed until 1957, while the first telegraph lines were done nearly a hundred years earlier..
he seems like a really relaxed guy haha
ah damn
*takes a bite out of his sandwich*
with mouth full: the UK doesn't have internet anymore
*takes another bite*
hmmm....oh I forgot my tomato soup!
Rachelle Janssen u just made my day😂😂😂
Fuck No! UK will still have Internet, it is just that UK will not be able to access US traffic and US will not be able to access UK traffic!
clinton p Thats cool and all But i cant remember asking
clinton p yeah when?
I don't get it
Can you just pull the cable for a sec, connect it to you laptop and run a speed test?
Bwahahahaha!
Jonk, no???
there has to be a server capable of doing a test, these cables are Tbps so no, unfortunately not possible to do so
@@maazkalim tf do you mean " jonk"?
.@@vodkasion8325 It's a bilingual wordplay, actually. 😊(
To be blunt.)
Need I elucidate? 🤔
We have a lot of fiber here linking multiple buildings and SCADA networks where I work and I am always blown away with how much data can move over just a pair of fiber. Great video thanks for sharing! Now I want to know more about what they do out at sea! Man, it can't be easy to fix this junk in deep water!
It is absolutely freakin incredible. And at speeds of milliseconds.
Makes sense, didn't even think of that, lol!
there's videos of the ships pulling and repairing cable
When they need to fix a submarine section, in deep water a robot is sent to the ocean floor, 2 sets of floats are installed, then the cable is cut between the floats. The ends float up, then a repair section is added in and the cable is dropped back to the ocean floor.
Fascinating video. Thank you for all of the time and effort that you put into making it.
Absolutely amazing. I have so much respect and admiration for the people who made this happen.
This guy REALLY likes cables
think of it this way, he is literally responsible for a significant portion of all the internet traffic for several countries. if he wished to he could just plug out a few tiny fiber cables and entire populations would be offline.
this kind of power gets into your head lol.
Someone: DDOS him
Him: *Shuts down entire internet from their country*
Holy crap. This was really eye opening. So Europe's internet all comes thru a small cable via a small random building on a beach in Denmark. Wow
That was bloomin’ fascinating! Thank you!
I think that Google requests are sent to somewhat national servers that mirror from and to the US server. This has a name but I can't remember it.
Edit: Its called Content Delivery Network.
CDN, content delivery networks.
Ricardo del toro Yeah CDN was what I meant.
handsome devil No not proxy server.
But a CDN is exactly just that, for simple content. Complex searches would need to run Google’s algorithms. I speculate they do run them in Europe especially in Ireland.
wikichris I think that it would make sense to still run them continentally, tge algortithms should do the same if all input factors are identical.
Love the videos, fascinating
Wow..simplicity yet so complex and hightech. Love it
That guy seems so calm and chilled out... cool 👍
I live 6 km from this place, and I never even knew it before now 😂 I've been to many of the places shown in this video and seen the building multiple times, how strange
Hermanno hows your internet lol
.@@michaelmorgan9601 If I may: Is your “lol” solely expressing emotions or rather meant to denote that you're jonking?
Ya u must have super shaft speeds 😂🤙🏽
Ma'az Kalim CEO of typing
.@@Rulla33 Uh-huh?
The internet wouldn't be possible without an analog infrastructure.
This is incredible. How eye opening wow. Also you got a sick job man
I live about 30 minutes from Tuckerton. That’s insane to learn how significant it is, seeing Tuckerton recognized and it’s so close to home.
0:56 I hope they change the password regularly, because you just gave it away
Only a part of it I think, there is a jumpcut and then he finises to type the password. And 3 digits doesn't make a password.
Kinda foolish to think the password doesn't change regularly if not daily.
2 Factor authentication. He tapped his RFID or NFC card first and then typed in his password.
I saw it. It was clearly ********
If you must know, the password at the gate is the same as the melody to Funkytown (thanks to Towlie from Southpark)
Did Chinese or Korean infiltrated this facility??
When war broke out,
the first battle is on Internet
Which “Chinese”???
PRC?
Which “Korean”?? Northern??
Intelligence agencies and military would rely on satellite.
You think this already happened?
Really enjoyed this video. Wish it was longer.
This was fascinating! What an amazing and complex system that allows us to function on the internet. Human engineering at its finest.
Why is the map of Ireland so messed up at 2:36 and numerous other places on the video?
But they didn't show the place where NSA cable is spliced in to their cable... xD
In the US.
We thank you for your service
This man is doing an excellent job. He's like the port guardian of humanity's knowledge sharing trade route.
i wonder what's the download speed is like in that building lol
100gb/per sec
Tim Wynn noticed he said GIGABYTES, that's a lot
Arkansaw United it's actually more like 1 TB/s
*UNLIMITED POWER*
You don’t want to take a black light into that place...
For some reason this piece made me fantasize about the feasibility of cutting all these TATs, I dunno why. Seemed to be the underlying question being answered by the man, that even if you tried, it would be very hard.
Very possible and governments are aware of threats by foreign intelligence/military to undersea cables. They are part of the critical infrastructure you would sabotage first in case of war. Also there was lots of wiretapping done with submarines etc. during the cold war by US and Soviets.
nhunha you can't really tap them today though, fiber optics running through a line like that is so hard to tap into without someone noticing a latency or filtering issue
damaging the cables, yes.
i work at an ISP and it also amazes me how inconspicuous these intercontinental cables that are responsible for literally dozens of millions of people's are. sometimes you can even see the cable poking a bit out of the earth near the beach and no one has any idea wtf it actually does. it should be dead simple for any malevolent agent to just sneak anywhere along it's crazy length and rupture it.
as for wiretapping it... easier said than done. the fact that there is so much data passing through it also means it's that much harder to find the traffic you're looking for.
There is also approx 10,000V applied to the cable, to power all of the optical-repeaters in series (- the voltage changes depending on distance and how many repeaters need powering). If the cable is ever cut, the voltage on the cable, gets applied across whatever just cut it......
Was always intrigued by this. Thanks for sharing
Hes the most chill type of guy that fits this job
It seems nuts that they would actually show this! Shouldn't this be VERY confidential?
For Grim til TV but there are many dozens of connections and thousands of civilian people working on them. Doesn’t make sense to try to keep it secret. We are lucky that terrorists are usually stupid psychos. They are not very thoughtful. Everyone knows where all the major electricity network stations are. Everyone knows where trains can be derailed. Terrorists just never go for this stuff.
Why are you worried about terrorists? All large governments tap the underground transmission cables. The US even has a specialized submarine for it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter and here's an article specifically on what they do en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_tapping
The internet is more robust than you think, even if that single connection is shut down, packets will find a way around it
Well, they didn't give info where is the address of place above or phone number.
For Grim til TV this is common knowledge, be worried about satellites now
Either you guys do a really good job about resolving outages, or I just access US based websites, because I don’t ever remember any outage that wasn’t just my ISP.
you wouldnt see any outage unless all cross continental paths were out simultaneously - that's statistically near impossible. Even if all of the 10 cables to Europe all were cut at the same time, the data would just flow the other way around the earth as there are pacific cables as well
Beach house? More like "far out", because this is incredible! Thanks for making this really great video.
You guys make one the most awesome documentary videos
If a cable gets damaged and goes down, how do they know where in the ocean it got damaged?
good question
yeah this is a good question. I would assume that they have little sensors on the cable and they can locate a general area where it’s been damaged but there’s probably a lot of work
Have you ever used an actual broadband?
I meant: The wireline one!
You'll notice he showed the ocean cable coming into the communications building at the beach along side a power cable. The reason for the power cable is to power amplifiers along the length of the fiber to boost the signal. Take note of where the amplifiers go out and you know roughly where your break is.
Time domain reflectomotry 😊
are these cables that are being placed Optic Fiber ?? What kind of cables are being used
Saabrito They are fiber optic cables, yes.
Try watching the video!!!
It can only be optic fibre. Everything else has a tiny fraction of the capacity and is not nearly as thin and light. If you're laying cable, everything costs about the same to lay, so you lay what has the most capacity when internet traffic is growing by 50% per year.
Saabrito naw it’s all just cat 5
Blue Square lmfaooo😂😂🤣🤣🤣
As an installer the thought of doing underwater runs makes me happy
This video is fascinating!
like this dude. mean poker face
given how important these cables are why wouldn't they install fully armored runs the entire way regardless of depth? Is it because the weight at depth would make maintenance too difficult, or some other technical problem? I don't think it would be a cost issue right? Bc these connections are basically priceless.
Pressure wouldnt be the problem, that's for sure. Weight is one issue, for sure, not to mention an underwater current would be able to "grip" onto the cable much better, putting several hundred tons of force on it. And, whatever they are doing right now seems to be working, i'm sure they will fix any problems that come up, and quite quickly at that.
much more data goes over satelites than those cables.
vojtasTS29 yeah, no.
They are literally 1 cable from shore to shore.. Fully armouring the entire length would require a massive ship and add exponential cost.
Some are buried; There are various roving trenchers that get deployed around the world to bury the lines under the ocean floor for added protection. It's dropped from a ship and remotely controlled. A high precision job.
You guys have been gone for a while! Missed you and PLEASE POST MOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
there is no better man to do this job, what a hero
Good place for intercepting data :D
Big brother watching you!
I'm worried how all of our precious memes are traveling over to such unprotected buildings!
Exactly! WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE MEMES?!?
Shaun Gordon .
This place looks so beautiful
Came to Denmark when I was 10-11 years old, and this country never stops amazing me 😃..thumbs up of you're from Denmark 🇩🇰 💟
I just realized what a boring life I will be having if not for this cables
his cables
It's not real a beach house tho is it?
Uh-huh?
Well in a beach and a house it houses something so yea A beach house
Thankyou so much for the information.
5:55 This actually happens. The inductance of the power lines for the amplifiers messes with the magnetic senses of the sharks, so they nibble on the cables.
Imagine being midway into Pornhub and chill - you're about to shoot it - and bam, CONNECTIVITY GONE! From a fishing anchor.
It's not like only a single cable/thread is connecting you to the WWW traffic. There are series of cables that does that. Also, in case of failure there are redundancy & backups, secondary backups & emergency backups in place.
Russia's sub that caught fire brought me here
Same
Great video thanks!
I had no idea how this was done, very cool.
Anyone else work In a headend and recognizes all the hardware?
I'd like to know too; this stuff fascinates me. Do telecom companies buy certain wavelengths or? How does it get split up?
This.
Longhaul transport
@@dougm275 It all depends on the technology and how much they want to reserve. The technology changes all the time.
@0:55 good job Sir ! *He has shown his pin code :-)* for the Internet building. We are all doomed :-O
Last 3 digits of his pin to the entry gate are 114 or 774 (or left bottom button x 2, and the one button above as the last digit)
Now the CIA only has to guess the first digit 9 times and they are in, if the pin has 4 digits :-)
Unless he changes the password on a regular basis. Which he does.
For a critical facility like this, it's most likely single time use PIN generated by Key-Fobs or other physical 2-step security devices
You could just drive a truck into the fence?
Thanks for this awesome content
Just beautiful and perfect English. Accent perfect too. This is a very very responsible job!! well done.
The one physical link of technology keeping millions of people physically and emotionally separated
gorrilaunit99 Isn't ironic how these touch screens can make us lose touch?
But in all seriousness, the internet is an amazing utility; we're just not using it very effectively for social interactions and learning.
Tens of millions... ;) For some reason, I immediately thought of this scene from The Two Towers when I saw your comment. :P
ruclips.net/video/Afw8e-abVa8/видео.html
All I want is quality memes.
Not to mention isolated, text fails to communicate inflection, videos tend to be produced for very specific effect giving them a slight feeling of artificiality. Not to mention making any meaningful or impactful content really draws the ire of anyone who disagrees with you. Separated and vulnerable.
Well, i also connect via cable...interesting.
What isn't mentioned is that the non-fiber part of the cable is electrified, and is used to power boosters placed about every 100km in the cable. These amplify the light based fiber pulses. The boosters are quite large too, about the size of a small torpedo. Some even have things like seismographs to detect seaquakes, and pressure sensors to detect passing tsunami waves.
A really interesting video and nicely put together.
Imagine tripping over one of those wires in the building...
Oopsie
Jonk???
so it is very easy to interrupt the internet traffic between Europe and North america.
** There is a secret tap in the marianis trench providing the whole town of KEY WEST with free internet. Yes. LOL
Heroin is not your friend.
No it is not. Don't be so stupid.
this was very interesting and educational love content like this
As always amazing
1:42 Ireland has grown a Tumor on its wesy coast
The title should be "Inside the Beach House Connecting Europe to the World’s Internet"
Great video, always wandered about this.
Thank you for sharing..Excellent video great insight great for knowledge how it really works. Keep Sharing Knowledge.
I think extraterrestrial beings finds it a very primitive and fragile way of planetary communication.
where does the NSA have there room ?
Washington
LOVE these imformative videos.!
He's the man who makes sure we get our memes. Bless him.