Undersea Fiber Optic Cable Map

There they connected two ends of a 4 000 kilometer 2 500 mile long 1 5 centimeter 0 6 inch wide cable.

Undersea fiber optic cable map.

Buy the wall map. Interactive submarine cable map of fiber optic submarine cable systems around the world. Aae 1 spanning over 25 000 kilometres 16 000 mi connects southeast asia to europe via egypt. Behind the cable boom.

The world s network of submarine cables. Selecting a cable on the map projection or from the submarine cable list provides access to the cable s profile including the cable s name ready for service rfs date length owners website. But while they lack the flashiness of satellites it s actually the world s vast network of fiber optic cables that does most of the heavy lifting in keeping our information flowing from place to place. The map and data will always remain free and i m confident the new custodians will do the project justice.

Telegeography s free interactive submarine cable map is based on our authoritative global bandwidth research and depicts active and planned submarine cable systems and their landing stations. View the above visualization at full resolution for the best experience. The 12 091 km long cable has nine terminal stations operated by leading telecom carriers from eight countries. Submarine cable map 2019.

Submarine cables are decidedly uncool. After maintaining the map for years it has become difficult for me to find time to continue the work. On july 29 1858 two steam powered battleships met in the middle of the atlantic ocean.