Laying Cables to Create a Revolution, February 2009
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Photo 1 of 23Credit: SeacomWhat the excitement is all about: An example of the fibre-optic cable now being laid between East and Southern Africa and India and Europe to speed up telecommunications between the continents. This cross-section is surrounded by steel armouring to protect the cable in shallow water. -
Photo 2 of 23Credit: SeacomThe cable is laid by ships such as this one, "The Reliance." -
Photo 3 of 23Credit: SeacomFibre-optic cable being loaded onto a ship at the factory where it is manufactured. -
Photo 4 of 23Credit: SeacomThe cable is laid two feet under the seabed in shallow water. -
Photo 5 of 23Credit: SeacomCable-layers send a plough to the seabed to dig a trench for the cable. -
Photo 6 of 23Credit: SeacomHow a vessel lays cable close to land. -
Photo 7 of 23Credit: SeacomClose to land, the cable is deployed using buoys, and pulled to shore. -
Photo 8 of 23Credit: SeacomThis remote-operated vehicle can be used to inspect the cable once it is in place on the seabed. -
Photo 9 of 23Credit: SeacomLanding station buildings for Mombasa and Maputo in transit at the Durban harbour in South Africa. -
Photo 10 of 23Credit: SeacomComponents of the cable landing station in Mombasa, Kenya, are delivered. -
Photo 11 of 23Credit: SeacomA module for the Mombasa landing station is lowered into place. -
Photo 12 of 23Credit: SeacomA module eased into place. -
Photo 13 of 23Credit: SeacomSlowly, the landing station... -
Photo 14 of 23Credit: Seacom...Begins to take shape as the various modules are fitted into place. -
Photo 15 of 23Credit: SeacomFinishing work is carried out... -
Photo 16 of 23Credit: SeacomAll the modules are now in place.... -
Photo 17 of 23Credit: SeacomFor Seacom's Mombasa landing station. -
Photo 18 of 23Credit: SeacomThe new cable to East and Southern Africa is rolled out on the "Tyco Resolution," the ship laying it. -
Photo 19 of 23Credit: SeacomThe cable enters the sheave, or pulley, through which it is fed out of the stern of the ship to the seabed. -
Photo 20 of 23Credit: SeacomA close-up of the cable system being laid. -
Photo 21 of 23Credit: SeacomThe Seacom team at the landing site in Tanzania, from left, Jon Avery, field engineer, Christophe Albert, construction manager, Anna Kahama-Rupia, managing director of SEACOM Tanzania, and Michael Njumba, a director of SEACOM Tanzania. -
Photo 22 of 23Credit: SeacomWhile further south, dignatories including former Mozambican cabinet minister and South African first lady Graca Machel... -
Photo 23 of 23Credit: Seacom... And Maua Daftari, Tanzania's deputy minister responsible for communications, science and technology gathered in Maputo for the groundbreaking of the Seacom facility there.
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