A telecom cable, or submarine communications cable, is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. Modern cables use optical fiber technology to carry digital data, which includes telephone, Internet and private data traffic.
Modern cables are typically about 1 inch (25 mm) in diameter and weigh around 2.5 tons per mile (1.4 tonnes per km) for the deep-sea sections which comprise the majority of the run, although larger and heavier cables are used for shallow-water sections near shore.
Telecom Cables is a static data layer. They are point-by-point lines that you can draw in, edit or remove when making a plan.
Telecom Cables create the following pressures on the ecosystem:
Telecom Cables disallow the bottom trawl fishing fleet only. During construction, the other two fishing fleets (Industrial and Pelagic Trawl Catch and Drift and Fixed Nets Catch) are also disallowed.
Return to cables and pipelines.
Adapted from data provided by NorthSEE partner Rijkswaterstaat, the Netherlands
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Not available, data provided in May 2017.
Reprojected the data layer to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (EPSG:3035).
In the North Sea Digitwin edition the data is from Rijkswaterstaat and was retrieved on 2019-10.
Not applicable.
This layer is not available in the Baltic Sea Edition.
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Data adapted from EMODnet human activities portal.
Telecommunication Cables (schematic routes)
"The dataset on submarine telecom cables was created by Cogea in 2014 for the European Marine Observation and Data Network. The underlying data is property of Telegeography and is available online at https://github.com/telegeography/www.submarinecablemap.com. Compared with the previous version, this version of includes the gigabit per second values that come from the Cable System Database of the Packet Clearing House organization and are available online at https://prefix.pch.net/applications/cablesystem/. The database contains lines and points representing cables and related landing points. Cables are represented as stylised paths, as actual cable routes locations are not available in most cases. The dataset includes any cable that crosses the EU waters (Marine regions). Marine regions and subregions boudaries are defined in Article 4 of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and available online at https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/msfd-regions-and-subregions."
Retrieved from EMODnet human activities data portal, on 2022-07-12.
2014-07-31, reviewed on 2016-07-07.
The datalayer was clipped to the Clyde Marine Region. Lines may have been simplified to optimize the rendering in the MSP Platform.
This layer is not available in the Adriatic Sea Edition.
Co-funded by the European Union.