New submarine cable will link Internet users across the Pacific

High-speed under the sea
CNN reports that 99 percent of international communications are handled by existing submarine cables. In fact, damage to underwater cables can cause critical Internet failures for nations who depend on these cables for high-speed data transfers. Widespread adoption of fiber-to-Ethernet hardware allows fiber-optic cables to connect high-speed Internet to remote islands and first world nations with ease. The technology offers a cost advantage over satellite solutions, which are still used to connect the Internet to distant, rural communities.

Submarine cables are occasionally disturbed by natural phenomenon like storms and earthquakes, but a majority of issues arise as a result of human activity. Damage caused by fishing equipment and ship anchors is responsible for 75 percent of cable failures. Shark attacks have also proved to be problematic pattern for submarine cables, leading Google to wrap its cable in Kevlar, says Network World.

Perle has an extensive range of Managed and Unmanaged Fiber Media Converters to extended copper-based Ethernet equipment over a fiber optic link, multimode to multimode and multimode to single mode fiber up to 160 km.