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Map of Undersea Internet Cables
- rgbrenner 11y agolike that map.. it's been on hn a few times. have it bookmarked. This article has a similar map (same data source) with a slider by year: https://builtvisible.com/messages-in-the-deep/ https://builtvisible.com/messages-in-the-deep/ (The article is also interesting)
- kylebennett 11y agoSimilarly, here is a nice map with fiber trunk over land in some areas: http://maps.level3.com/default/#.VefukZ1Viko http://maps.level3.com/default/#.VefukZ1Viko
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- crishoj 11y agoWould be neat to add know and suspected Five Eyes interception points.
- elchief 11y agoThey're the white dots ;)
- justhw 11y agoWhen crossing the Atlantic and other big oceans, do the cables actually rest on the ocean floor or do they float?
- Synaesthesia 11y agoThey're laid at the bottom of the ocean.
- ksec 11y agoThen how would sharks bite them?
- rgbrenner 11y agoit has been speculated that sharks are attracted to the magnetic field created by the high voltage carried through the cables, which resembles those created by fish. Article includes video of shark biting cable: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/14/google-undersea-fibre-optic-cables-shark-attacks http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/14/google-und...
- thomasahle 11y agoIt's really weird thinking about, that every time I swipe around that map on my phone, what I see is sent over some of those exact cables from the other side of the world.
- oxymoron 11y agoFor people interested in this, I can recommend Neal Stephensons Wired feature from the 90's. As you'd expect from Stephenson, it's crazy long. It describes his travels documenting the laying of an early submarine Internet cable. http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html
- noselasd 11y agoAlso, this is quite informative: https://www.quora.com/How-are-major-undersea-cables-laid-in-the-ocean https://www.quora.com/How-are-major-undersea-cables-laid-in-...
- alister 11y agoThe most connected spot in the world isn't New York or Hong Kong, but the unlikely city of Fortaleza, Brazil, with 17 cable landings.
- dang 11y agoThis is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9216894 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9216894. Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3643749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3643749, a few years earlier.