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> With around 95% of the world’s communications being carried on submarine cable networks Surely a lot of communications are within a continent, not needing de
by mikelward 3y ago
> With around 95% of the world’s communications being carried on submarine cable networks
Surely a lot of communications are within a continent, not needing deep sea cables?
- devsatish 3y ago95% of the world.
- alexchamberlain 3y agoI would guess that some intra continental communications still use sub-sea cables, either through necessity (UK to France) or to cut out a large number of hops (say South Africa to the Ivory Coast; I don't know if such a cable exists, but I think there are cables going alongside west Africa).
- capableweb 3y ago> Surely a lot of communications are within a continent, not needing deep sea cables? Why? Lots of packets flowing in all types of directions, even if I'm just writing to my neighbor on Whatsapp. I'd be surprised if even 10% of my packets never left the (European) continent. Maybe it'd look differently if I lived in North America.