Take a look at the submerged backbone of the internet.
Posted 02.01.2013 at 5:59 pm
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The World's Undersea Cables
TeleGeography (Nick Browning, Markus Krisetya, Larry Lairson, Alan Mauldin)
It might feel like our communications systems have evolved past the point where we'd need tons of cables, but it couldn't be further from the truth--undersea cables are an integral part of the internet's backbone, as we investigated here. But where are they, exactly, and which cable links which hubs?
TeleGeography makes these great four-color graphics every year that show exactly that--definitely worth a look. Check out this year's map here.
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I see all those wonderful internet lines to China to CUT and reduce the quantity of hacking!
It is time to get a gigantic size scissors!
Interesting
Cables? Well, not really. Most are fibre-optic with each fibre carrying enormous bandwidths in several colors. It is fibre-optic transmission that makes internet response so immediate.
Who owns these?