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Saturday 2 February 2013

ALL OF THE WORLD'S UNDERSEA CABLES IN ONE MAP


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All Of The World's Undersea Cables In One Map
By Dan Nosowitz,
Popular Science, 1 February 2013.

Take a look at the submerged backbone of the internet.

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?

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The World's Undersea Cables. Credit: TeleGeography (Nick Browning, Markus Krisetya,
Larry Lairson, Alan Mauldin).

TeleGeography makes these great four-colour graphics every year that show exactly that - definitely worth a look. Check out this year's map here.

[Source: Popular Science. Edited. Top image added.]

Top image: 2012 Map of the Worldwide Undersea Submarine Cable Network (via Twisted Sifter).



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