What speed cable?

Fishermen made off with a "560Mb/s" cable leaving the country dependant on a single 10 Gb/sec cable...

OK, they have lost redundency, but they have only lost 5% of their bandwidth... Probably about time that it was upgraded... unless it was 560 gbit, then they only have 5% left...

Remember, that underwater, all cable looks alike... They probably realised somthing was wrong when they pulled an Alcatel underwater repeater unit up at the same time...

Yes, there is copper in a fibre optic cable: it gives the cable more rigidity, and there are cables that are used to power the repeater stations (laser pumps & cable / link diagnostics) every couple of dozen klicks that are used to boost the signal and report what segment of a x thousand kilometer line has just been broken after earthquakes, sunken/beached ships and thieving fishermen break it. It is also used to reinforce the cable when a cable maintenance ship has to drag a hook over the seabed to pull the cable up to make repairs - some of those lines are miles deep, and that makes a lot of cable to pull...

Cheers,