It makes you wonder what a map showing the next 30 years of internet expansion will look like. TeleGeographys interactive submarine cable map shows the majority of active and planned international submarine cable systems and their landing stations. Google's cable takes a similar route, but it also connects to another line that stretches across the Pacific ocean to California. The futurist plans involve drones and lasers, satellites, and balloons-but also, good old-fashioned submarine cables.įacebook built one just this year, running along the South Pacific from Malaysia to Japan. Coxs Bazar Map Details Advertisement: Submarine Cable Systems Click a Cable below for details SeaMeWe-4 view route Connected Landing Stations Click a CLS. NB: Anyone planning work that could affect any submarine cable should. Selecting a landing point provides a list of all submarine cables landing at that station. The SeaMeWe-3 submarine cable system became operational (ready for service/RFS) around September 1999.

We've written before about the tech giants' plans to carry internet access across the digital divide, to developing nations and remote areas around the world. Verizon, Comcast, Level 3), an IXP, or a submarine communication cable studying its history, current status, map, provided services, and/or wellknown. Selecting a cable route on the map provides access to data about the cable, including the cables name, ready-for-service (RFS) date, length, owners, website, and landing points. Figure 3.2.1: Map showing existing and proposed cables. SubTel Forums Submarine Cables Of The World Interactive Map is built with the industry-standard Esri ArcGIS platform and linked to the SubTel Submarine Cable. This cable will be built in compliance with the latest international standards and rules and will benefit the socio-economic participants in Tunisia. 1.4 Overview of submarine cables in the Pacific: Current situation and upcoming. The cables are owned by handful of major telecom and service providers around the world, including the likes of Verizon and AT&T, along with lesser-known giants like Tata and Level 3. Recently, Facebook and Google have joined the list. Orange Tunisia and Medusa Submarine Cable System signed an agreement on May 11 to deploy a submarine cable linking Tunisia (Bizerte) to Europe, via France (Marseilles). (Trivia fact #2: The longest undersea fibre optic cable spans over 8,000 miles, from Germany to South Korea, connecting 32 different countries.)Įven more interesting, the map shows who owns all this hulking metal, and is tasked with the unenviable job of maintaining the vulnerable infrastructure, which has battled shark bites, whale entanglements, typhoons, earthquakes, and ship anchors over the years. Ulysses Submarine Cable System Map Ulysses Route The Ulysses submarine cable system became operational (ready for service/RFS) around 1997. It’s a pretty cool graphic, if, like me, you find the history of internet infrastructure quite fascinating. The map breaks down the spread of cables by year, and you can click on individual lines for more details, like the name of the cable and its length.

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