Undersea Cable Map Shows Where The Data Pipes Are

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.)

Comments

Looks like the old telegraph maps

[JoshuaZ]

This looks very similar to the maps of the undersea telegraph and telephone lines from around a hundred years ago. See, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1901_Eastern_Telegraph_cables.png This shouldn't be that surprising since the basic idea of the technology (large underwater cables to transmit information) is the same, the population centers a hundred years ago are not that far off from the population centers today, and the geoological constrains are similar also.

Re:Looks like the old telegraph maps

[albertid]

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

Tubes

[Anonymous Coward]

So it is a series of tubes. I knew it.

Re:Svlabard has a 5 TB cable?

[Anne_Nonymous]

Up there? That's the department for keeping track of who's been naughty, and who's been nice.