Cable

The electo-optical cable uses copper wire and optical fibers to carry power to and communications to and from the system of regional scale nodes and the shore.

Cable
The electo-optical cable uses copper wire and optical fibers to carry power to and communications to and from the system of regional scale nodes and the shore. This backbone cable, the primary cable, will be supplemented by secondary cables that will reach instruments in more unstable, but usually highly interesting, seafloor areas. Total length of the backbone cable will be nearly 1200 km.

Wet Plant

What the observatory engineers call the “wet plant” consists of the backbone cable and the underwater nodes.

Shore Stations
Cable will come ashore in two likely locations on the Oregon Coast: Warrenton and Pacific City. Shore stations will provide the power feed for the wet plant and the connectivity portal of the underwater system to the rest of the world via the Internet.