The April 2008 issue of Sea Technology, a trade magazine, features an article about SeaCon who supplies the connectors for the DOM cables. The article was written by Michael Mulcahy regarding IceCube and the IceCube cable system:
"Because the South Pole's extreme temperatures tend to keep frozen objects frozen into the foreseeable future, as well as the fact that the South Pole Station is so far inland, IceCube's sensor strings will likely be in long-term cold storage for hundreds of years.
IceCube is a tangible illustration of the success of instrumentation functioning unattended in a long-term deployment to gather and transmit valuable data from one of the harshest operating environments on earth."
The rest of the article is available to subscribers to Sea Technology.