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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.)

3 of 97 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Looks like the old telegraph maps by albertid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nice observation! An even older communication system also resembles the pipes to some degree, namely the major trade routes from 1400-1800: http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch5en/conc5en/tradeflows14001800.html

  2. Re:Always wondered.. by dkettmann76 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Looking through the presentation archives of the NANOG meetings ( http://www.nanog.org/presentations/archive/ ) has some great stuff on undersea cables and also ISP peering, etc.

  3. Re:Anyone that can tap a line could build this map by Jstlook · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who is this Greg Mahlknecht?

    A guy who saw that there was a really cool poster that cost money, and decided to make himself a free version. Of course, had he asked the people who sold the poster, he might have found out they have an electronic copy available to download at no cost.

    Ah well.

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    ---jstlook ---For that is the way of Elves, for they say both yes AND no, and mean every word of it. --- J.R.R.T.