New Submarine Internet Cable Map
Posted: 01 Feb 2013, 05:04
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01 ... r-in-2013/
Follow the link for further reading.New map shows how the Internet will travel underwater in 2013
A beautifully done map shows how the Internet traverses the open ocean.
by Casey Johnston - Feb 1 2013, 1:30am SAST
TeleGeography released a 2013 version of its Submarine Cable Map on Thursday showing the 232 cables that ferry telecommunications under water between countries. The mapmakers note the rendering serves as a rough estimator for overall demand for connectivity between places, and that cables to a location mean bandwidth there is generally faster and cheaper than places that must communicate via satellite.
In addition to mapping the locations of the cables, the map shows a chart detailing the names and connectivity of all the cables installed between 1992 and 2012. For instance, the Challenger-Bermuda 1, built by Alcatel-Lucent in 2008, connects the US to Bermuda and had an initial capacity of 20 Gigabits per second, scalable to 320 Gigabits per second. The Unity/EAC-Pacific cable, lit in 2010 and funded in part by Google, connects the US and Japan (and cost around $300 million to build, according to Wired).
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