Seacom Cable Completion

When we visited Kenya in 2007, a highly-visible ditch was being dug by hand along the length of the Nairobi - Naivasha road. We discovered that this ditch was being hand excavated all the way from Mombasa to house the new fiber optic high speed internet cables that were being laid from Dubai across the sea floor to Kenya.

At the time, completion seemed like a long way off in the future, but today the link has been completed!

These sorts of cables connect all of the continents but Antarctica, making the rest of the world accessible virtually instantly.

I am a bit in awe of this network of ultra-mass-communication and how amazingly fragile it can be.

I am very excited for the myrid opportunities that the new East African Seacom cable will now open up, however a little part of me wonders how stable a shallowly-buried and well-publicized cable will be.