PTC’18 SUBMARINE CABLE EVENTS THE OVERALL THEME FOR PTC’18 CABLE SESSIONS IS “CABLES ARE CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.”
BY PAUL MCCANN
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SUBMARINE CABLES – THE CRITICAL CONNECTION
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ver the past 40 years, tremendous developments across the submarine cable industry and technological differences between wired and wireless communications have driven a massive shift of the world’s international telecommunications traffic from satellite to cable connectivity. These developments have been exponential within the last 10 years and the trend/growth is getting bigger and bigger, driven by such things as the Top 10 Cloud, IoT, 5G, and other new technologies that rely on resilient industrialstrength submarine cable connectivity. This critical infrastructure, intricately meshing subsea systems across the world, supported the transformation