The Engineering, Manufacturing and Installation of Submarine Telephone Cable Systems

This paper is for the non-telecommunications engineer or scientist who is interested in the sea and who may have wondered about some things in the submarine cable business but never bothered to ask. It discusses the beginnings of transocean cable telephony and the state of the art today. The activities required to bring a modern seacable system into being, what is being done to reduce interruptions, and what cable does if anything to the environment, are discussed. A forecast of possible future cable developments is made.