A map of all the undersea internet cables in the world

garyr_h · 3 years

This made me wonder who owned the cables and how they were laid. Pretty interesting stuff.

One nugget from the wiki article:

"In March, 2007, pirates stole an 11 km (7 mi) section of the T-V-H submarine cable that connected Thailand, Vietnam, and Hong Kong, affecting Vietnam's Internet users with far slower speeds. The thieves attempted to sell the 100 tons of illicit cargo as scrap."

I definitely did not hear about that. That is some crazy shit.

remccain · 3 years

1% of the bandwidth is used for telephone calls, yet you still pay through the nose to dial overseas. Fuck you, AT&T

leokennis · 3 years

I always wondered: where do these cables get to land? Do they literally come out of the sea by the shore, lay half buried under some beach and then run into some sort of 'internet distribution' building? I seriously have no freaking clue.

SovereignZ · 3 years

Under the sea! Under the sea! Darling it's better! Down where it's wetter! Take it from me!

escape_goat · 3 years

Well, I''m guessing that will be the last time PCB software is ever used to design a physical network.

andymason · 3 years

The map is made by telegeography.com and comes from the Guardian newspaper back in February http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/01/internationalpersonalfinancebusiness.internet

There is also a more detailed and full colour version at http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_cable/index.php which you can purchase yourself for $250

clawoo · 3 years

As a European, this map looks very strange to me. We're used to this map, which is taught in all schools.

I wonder if Russia has a map centered on them as well.

svideo · 3 years

Neil Stephensen wrote an awesome article for Wired years back on how these cables are laid and terminated. It's long but an amazing read. Check it out here

sfacets · 3 years

Australia sucks ass.

jimmick · 3 years

No fuggen wonder Australia gets high ping times to america, we're relaying through new zealand

buttson · 3 years

would love to see the linked img in png format. jpg is lousey for text.

darkreign · 3 years

.PNG MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT?

justincase1021 · 3 years

so no internet in Antarctica. I could actually get some work done there

phoenixankit · 3 years

No wonder broadband is so expensive in India and we get high pings to all western countries. China has a fucking direct cable to the US.

zobdos · 3 years

"SeaMeWe", ROFL!

dontgoatsemebro · 3 years

Hey remember when George Bush severed a load of cables effectively cutting Iran off from the internet?

thingnumber2 · 3 years

Most interesting thing I had no clue about that I've read about all year.

[deleted] · 3 years

I thought cuba had no undersea cable access and could only use data via an Italian satellite?

sniggity · 3 years

My day is complete now.

sixothree · 3 years

Does anyone have the non-compressed version of this image? I hate it when people ruin perfectly good images. Christ, you can't even read the source URL. People like this deserve a swift kick to the nuts.

[deleted] · 3 years

Kudos to the Guardian newspaper for this image.

Great paper.

anescient · 3 years

< 2 terabits of internet traffic on ocean cables? That seems a little thin.

teraflop · 3 years

Almost all the undersea internet cables in the world. I am currently posting this comment via one that isn't on the diagram.

tedivm · 2 years

Interesting fact- this thread shows up higher in Google than the actual picture and blog itself.

rack88 · 3 years

Woot, the US is a beast, sucking down all the internet bandwidth we can chew on.

JasonDJ · 3 years

So if I'm reading that diagram at the bottom of the page correctly, there is still 1.4Tb/s available for purchasing?

Anyone wanna go dutch on a REAL fast connection?

I'll even VLAN an open wi-fi AP to share it with any redditor that wants it. Honest.

itsmeee · 3 years

ah, wonderful! Now that I have a map of your infidel cables we shall strike at each of them, sending your world into disorder so Allah can reign supremely!

zouhair · 3 years

under the earth's ocean? I thought it was just laid over the earth's ocean. Am I wrong?

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