New Asia undersea data cable plan unveiled by Google, Facebook

Just another underwater cable for the Russian navy to cut at some point with their cable cutting submarines.

Times of political tension seem to be a good thing for underdeveloped nations as the fat cats scramble to buy allegiance.

Great picture... A piece of old polypropylene rope tied to some larger polypropylene rope with some electrical tape wrapped around it... On a beach somewhere. Bizarre.

Tech.

A piece of old polypropylene rope tied to some larger polypropylene rope with some electrical tape wrapped around it

:-)

It doesn't quite match Facebook's description below:

Apricot will feature a state-of-the-art submersible reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer employing wavelength selective switch for a gridless and flexible bandwidth configuration, based on space division multiplexing design.

Just another underwater cable for the Russian navy to cut at some point with their cable cutting submarines.

I would be more worried about this:

http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/f2cad40a82b36369e471fb7348c956e7

This is probably what the cover photo depicts, dragging the cable off the beach and into the sea:

https://www.zdnet.com/pictures/submarine-cables-tie-the-world-together/4/