It's in Japanese (and thus I can't read it), but there's a LOT more photos. It's really neat to see these aspects of undersea cabling, particularly the actual gland/port in the wall. Locations like this feel monuments to me, and for security reasons are pretty rarely seen.
You don't need a full 1:1 mirror of the strands, you can probably filter off a lot of the traffic that you don't need to spy on (e.g. TCP overhead) compress it and use a fraction of the bandwidth.
cool photos. Every time I see an article about cables like this on HN i think of the Mother Board Mother Earth article by Neil Stephenson. Worth the time if you haven't read it.
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html
It's in Japanese (and thus I can't read it), but there's a LOT more photos. It's really neat to see these aspects of undersea cabling, particularly the actual gland/port in the wall. Locations like this feel monuments to me, and for security reasons are pretty rarely seen.