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I was going to ask the same thing, what's up with that. Why is there no continuous connextion?
by orf 9y ago
I was going to ask the same thing, what's up with that. Why is there no continuous connextion?
- icebraining 9y agoThere are connections, just not ones where Google own a stake. Here's a map of the submarine cables as of last year: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/05/world-submarine-cable-map.png https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/...
- packetslave 9y agoBack when I was in Google Netops we had a healthy (unofficial) fear of having the backbone connect all the way around the world in a circle, especially with high-enough bandwidth links that both directions would start to look attractive to traffic management.
- tantalor 9y agoExplain?