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23 May 2012: Excellent worldwide free submarine cable map and cable systems descriptions:
http://www.submarinecablemap.com/
8 July 2002. See US transpacific cable landings: http://cryptome.org/eyeball/cablew/cablew-eyeball.htm
7 July 2002. Add Lynn, MA, landing station for 360 Atlantic cable.
Add photos and maps of landing stations for Apollo and Yellow at Shirley, NY, Apollo and TAT14 at Manasquan, NJ and TAT14 at Tuckerton, NJ. Information based on cable landing licenses issued by the Federal Communications Commission for US landings of submarine cables. These licenses describe cable owners, routes and landing stations. Some licenses give geographical coordinates of landing stations. Some but not all licenses:
http://ftp.fcc.gov/ib/pd/pf/scll.html
And see new New Submarine Cable Landing License Rules which took effect March 15, 2002. Changes to the rules are described in a Public Notice. New Rules with Report & Order.
5 July 2002. Add Telegeography, Inc. 2002 map.
4 July
2002
Source of maps and photos: Mapquest.com
(color) and TerraServer
USGS (monochrome).
Source of cable landings: Hardcopy coastal marine navigation maps: New York to Nantucket and to Cape May, New Jersey, Region 3 ChartKit, Better Boating Association, 1994; South Shore Long Island and New York Harbor ChartKit, Maptech, 2000.
Source of list of transatlantic fiber-optic cables: http://www.iscpc.org/cabledb/atlan_page.htm
See also list of eastern transpacific fiber-optic cables: http://www.iscpc.org/cabledb/epac_page.htm
This presents information on northeastern US landing stations of transatlantic cables. The cable systems include legacy wire cables as well as latest fiber-optic. Most cables land at four locations: Lynn, MA; Green Hill, RI; Long Island, NY; and the New Jersey coast from which they connect to legacy telecommunication hubs for landline and microwave distribution. See downtown Manhattan telephone switching hubs:
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/nytel/nytel-eyeball.htm
There are reports that US intelligence agencies have long had access to the cables, hubs and distribution systems. See James Bamford's The Puzzle Palace (1982) on the National Security Agency, and accounts of NSA's capabilities for fiber-optic tapping and signals interception in Duncan Campbell's Interception Capabilities 2000, prepared for the European Parliament. A bibliography of reports: http://cryptome.org/echelon-dc.htm
Two reported US signal interception stations are located at Yakima, WA, on the West Coast, and Sugar Grove, VA, on the East Coast.
Several of the transatlantic telecommunication companies -- Global Crossing, Tyco, Worldcom -- are in financial difficulty due to alleged deceptive accounting practices. Another, Project Oxygen (not the MIT Project Oxygen), which planned a global network, appears to be dormant. Worldcom's beleaguered chairman stated recently that the firm's survival is vital to national security and must not be allowed to fail. Critics and government spokespersons laughed at the hoary, often abused, claim. Though telecommunications firms and regulatory agencies worldwide are eager to provide government access to private communications to reap national security assurance of survival if not luxurious profitability.
Coastal navigation chart symbol for active cables is the serpentine line. Orientation of charts does not match that of photos.
