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The Secrets Of Cornwall - Part 1 - Communications

Mark Thomas · documentary · Watch on YouTube

Networking & internet infrastructureDocumentaries & storytelling

What it is

A documentary on how Cornwall became a hub for the world's communications, from the first transatlantic radio signal to modern undersea fibre cables. It describes how cable landing stations and the systems are put together.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a rare look at the unmarked buildings and infrastructure where undersea cables come ashore.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “All kinds of bland looking, unmarked buildings housing telecom equipment for the onshoring fibres.”

    Documentary on unmarked buildings housing cable landing equipment in Cornwall

    the-dude, 2020-08 · Recommendation · in “Secret Landscape: America's cold war infrastructure”

  2. “Documentary about the cable landing stations: The Secrets of Cornwall”

    Documentary about cable landing stations

    b0tzzzzzzman, 2021-10 · Recommendation · in “Incenser, or how NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables (2014)”

  3. “there is a youtube video[1] of a local tracking these down around the Cornwall area.”

    Local tracks down cable landing sites around Cornwall

    132RRN96, 2022-10 · Recommendation · in “Interactive Submarine Cable Map”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: cornwall, submarine cables, fibre optic, landing stations, telecom

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