Tapping a fiber optic bundle isn’t quite so simple.
“Tapping a fiber optic bundle isn’t quite so simple.”
It’s not easy on land in a controlled environment. On the sea floor? That increases the difficulty by several orders of magnitude. Not saying it can’t be done, of course.
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Apparently they can tap into them without going under the water at all. now.
In the US the tapping is done in the central offices.
The days of “tapping” cables and wires has been over for a long, long time.
Back in the day there was an ATT Long Wires station in my city. Every call from East of the MS to Europe went through this facility. And just about every one of them was “tappable” and redirectable from that facility.
The wires still come through town, but the entirety of that huge building’s function is done in a cabinet about the size of your refrigerator. The building housed about 500 employees at one time. Now, it is run from another facility.
Telecom stuff has changed so much in the last twenty years, the layman has no idea how their call gets from their hand to mom. Especially if they are in Europe and mom is in Toledo.
And the vast majority of those cables are fiberoptic.