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 Post subject: Submarine Cable Map 2011
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:17 pm 
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I was reading about the submarine cables that were damaged near Japan after the earthquake. I started reading about them and find them fascinating. I thought coax was a bitch to work with... this stuff is 3" thick and weighs 7 lbs/ft -- and of course, is extremely expensive.

Here's an updated map if anyone is interested:

http://www.telegeography.com/product-in ... 2011-l.jpg

Apparently less than 1% of all internet traffic is via satellite (and that's probably all from Antarctica.) It's all done by these submarine cables. Pretty cool.


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:51 am 
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Where does the lines from the northern part of Norway wind up going? They just head north and there is no corrisponding other end.

There is also a higher res image here http://www.telegeography.com/product-info/map_cable/downloads/2011_0208_CableMap_TeleGeography.jpg.zip

Cool map tho!

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nickcarr wrote:
I was reading about the submarine cables that were damaged near Japan after the earthquake. I started reading about them and find them fascinating. I thought coax was a bitch to work with... this stuff is 3" thick and weighs 7 lbs/ft -- and of course, is extremely expensive.

Here's an updated map if anyone is interested:

http://www.telegeography.com/product-in ... 2011-l.jpg

Apparently less than 1% of all internet traffic is via satellite (and that's probably all from Antarctica.) It's all done by these submarine cables. Pretty cool.


Here is a great website if submarine cables are of interest to you. I happened upon it when researching the extreme BS a distant relative was feeding the other day "there is NO Fiber Optic cable service to Hawaii!!!"

Really now

http://www.submarinecablemap.com/


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 4:33 pm 
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Yep cool stuff. Here's a neat (recent) documentary from CBS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfpNpQMYp8M

Nice typo at the 3:40 mark. Haha... I guess CBS doesn't hire anyone that can spell.


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