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December 9th, 2009, 19:40
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Many attribute the technical difficulties involved with communicating under large bodies of water as being one of the major reasons why are knowledge of the depths is so limited. Neptune will change all that using a 497-mile ring of fiber-optic cable sitting off the coast of Canada. The ring has five nodes that will stream data from hundreds of undersea devices directly to the internet. Wally, the robot pictured above, is an example of one of those devices. He just happens to be the world's first internet-operated deep-sea crawler.
"It's revolutionary in that it brings two new components into the ocean environment, which are power and high-bandwidth Internet," says Project Director Chris Barnes, from the project's offices at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. "We're really on the verge of wiring the oceans."
Outside of the scientific community, I'm willing to bet that the military would be interested in this kind of technology as well. Check out Scientific American for a full gallery of images. [Scientific American (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=first-undersea-science-station) via PopSci (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-12/undersea-base-now-comes-internet)]
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Many attribute the technical difficulties involved with communicating under large bodies of water as being one of the major reasons why are knowledge of the depths is so limited. Neptune will change all that using a 497-mile ring of fiber-optic cable sitting off the coast of Canada. The ring has five nodes that will stream data from hundreds of undersea devices directly to the internet. Wally, the robot pictured above, is an example of one of those devices. He just happens to be the world's first internet-operated deep-sea crawler.
"It's revolutionary in that it brings two new components into the ocean environment, which are power and high-bandwidth Internet," says Project Director Chris Barnes, from the project's offices at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. "We're really on the verge of wiring the oceans."
Outside of the scientific community, I'm willing to bet that the military would be interested in this kind of technology as well. Check out Scientific American for a full gallery of images. [Scientific American (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=first-undersea-science-station) via PopSci (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-12/undersea-base-now-comes-internet)]
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