The cable laid contained over 30,000 miles of wire, weighing more than 1600 tons.
The cable did not contain the information that was gathered.
Some cables contain both electrical wires and optical fibers.
The leaked cables contain allegations of personal business interests that both politicians deny.
The cable will contain four pairs of fibres.
Some multicore cables do contain an overall braid screen in addition to the individual screens on each core.
Cat 2 cable contains 4 pair of wires, or eight wires total.
The cable contains four twisted copper wire pairs, just like the earlier standards.
The cables also contain a fresh American intelligence assessment of Iran's missile program.
Fiber-optic cables are more efficient than copper wires and contain little distortion.
