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SHEFA Voice & Data Cables, Faroe Islands, Drone Approach

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This beautiful inlet near Hoyvík, Faroe Islands, contains important yet subtle material remains in the history of global communication. Here the drone descends to a disused local voice data cable, next to the SHEFA-1 (SHEtland-FAroes) cable landing site. SHEFA-1 was deployed from 1971 to 1994 and was a coaxial cable capable of carrying 120 telephone conversations at a time.

SHEFA-2, next to SHEFA-1 under the cement ramp seen on approach, runs from Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands to Banff in Scotland. SHEFA-2 is a 1000km fibre-optic submarine cable and is the world's longest purely passive optical fibre cable link - 390km of cable stretch runs entirely without amplifiers.
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