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> Ninety-nine percent of the world's digital communications rely on subsea cables. I'm skeptical of this claim. It seems way too high to me, and the reference
by rascul 2y ago
> Ninety-nine percent of the world's digital communications rely on subsea cables.
I'm skeptical of this claim. It seems way too high to me, and the reference is a paper about "Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions" which I'm unable to view but seems unrelated.
- pxeger1 2y agoI have access - that paper says: > Such an incident has wider implications because subsea cables carry >99% of all international data traffic, including the internet and trillions of dollars per day in financial transactions and in turn cites "L. Carter, R. Gavey, P. J. Talling, J. T. Liu, Oceanography 27, 58–67 (2014)", which I can't find a working link for. So it's actually talking about international traffic. Although even then, that's a little hard to believe.