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Undersea Cable Map Shows Where The Data Pipes Are

Posted by timothy on from the pulsing-through-the-depths dept.

overThruster writes with a report from TechCentral that "Greg Mahlknecht has built a free map showing the world's submarine telecommunications cable systems. The map, which took Mahlknecht several months to complete, is free of charge and will remain so.'" (At least until it gets shut down as a security threat.)

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  1. I haven't read it in years and years... by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...but I recall Neal Stephenson's article on undersea cables was very interesting.

  2. Re:Svlabard has a 5 TB cable? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You gotta figure the naughty proportion of the bandwidth is over 90%.

  3. Re:Svlabard has a 5 TB cable? by Nadaka · · Score: 3, Insightful

    just like the rest of the internet.