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.
Telegeography submarine optical fibre cable network ut.
In recent years as cloud and content providers attempt to reach more users and provide reliable and bandwidth intensive services submarine infrastructure has exploded.
Despite all this modem magic we can t ignore the laws of physics.
We re quickly approaching the shannon limit the maximum information carrying capacity of a submarine cable optical fiber pair.
Even as coherent modem technology continues to innovate the amount of data that can be carried over today s networks shows no signs of slowing.
The cable routes as multilinestrings and landing points as points.
Telegeography draws the cable routes and plots the landing points with adobe illustrator.
There are about 350 submarine cables spanning 1 2 million kilometers connecting.
The number of new submarine cables is set to grow by 50 percent in 2019 versus 2018 source.
Submarine cable map 2019.
Further according to telegeography s submarine cable map submarine cables act as the backbone of the internet.
Modern cables as wide as a garden.
These kml files are then parsed to create geojson.
Besides the extreme length the cable also features a massive potential capacity of over 180 tbps over 16 fiber pairs.
This 37 000 kilometer cable will connect 16 countries in africa and 23 countries overall.
Ieee spectrum magazine has a good article out about the ongoing transformation of the submarine fiber optic cable network and how this cable is part of the puzzle.
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.
We re also sharing stories about high frequency trading the facts behind attacking submarine cables and europe s broadband sector.
Using avenza s mapublisher plug in which works with illustrator two sets of data are exported as kml files.
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