How the Internet Travels Across Oceans
I've rented some of these lines as part of a financial trading infrastructure.What's immediately obvious is the line is much faster than going over the public internet, and there's no jitter: every time you ping it comes back in the same amount of time, whereas the internet pings will vary by several ms.You also become acutely aware of cable breaks. Somehow this happens quite often under the English Channel. The network operator will start sending you emails that say- Cable break detected- Loading ship (can take ages)- Found the break- Patched it- Back upOccasionally bad weather would delay it.