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.
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Telegeography s submarine cable map.
There is simply no networking technology that comes close to optical networks in terms of scalability reliability and economies of scale.
There are about 350 submarine cables spanning 1 2 million kilometers connecting.
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 quickly approaching the shannon limit the maximum information carrying capacity of a submarine cable optical fiber pair.
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Modern cables as wide as a garden.
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The cable routes as multilinestrings and landing points as points.
Despite all this modem magic we can t ignore the laws of physics.
Telegeography draws the cable routes and plots the landing points with adobe illustrator.
Submarine cable map 2019.
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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.
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.
Further according to telegeography s submarine cable map submarine cables act as the backbone of the internet.
The number of new submarine cables is set to grow by 50 percent in 2019 versus 2018 source.
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In recent years as cloud and content providers attempt to reach more users and provide reliable and bandwidth intensive services submarine infrastructure has exploded.
According to united states based market research firm telegeography there are 406 submarine cables stretching more than 1 2 million kilometers around the world.
This 37 000 kilometer cable will connect 16 countries in africa and 23 countries overall.
Besides the extreme length the cable also features a massive potential capacity of over 180 tbps over 16 fiber pairs.
These kml files are then parsed to create geojson.