Oxygen (telecommunication project)
The telecommunication project Oxygen connects 175 countries, all continents of the earth except for the Antarctic in a kind of super internet. These states are connected to one another by fiber optic cables running along the ocean floor .
Each segment transmits at least 100 gigabit / s, but in some places also over a terabit / s. On the 36 separate loops, it automatically finds more than 100 alternative routes to the respective destination and thus offers a high level of reliability.
Also because of the high speed it makes satellites superfluous as a transmission path for international, but not military, telecommunications . Telephony in particular is now only handled via transparent glass fibers , even on remote islands, due to the many light-bound communication paths and the long delay times associated with satellites .
The cost is $ 14 billion.
The project was completed in 2003 . Since then, it has been transmitting huge amounts of data and has been a crucial component of the global communications industry and thus globalization .