Map Showing World's Undersea Cables

William Gibson - Neuromancer said:
Program a map to display frequency data exchange (in the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis), every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old parks ringing the old core of Atlanta.
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That 3.84 Europe-India Gateway cable had it's landing point in Gibraltar completed a few months ago iirc.

Dead interesting to look at in general, good find :)
 
What a douche I am. Pasted this to my friend to show him as he was talking about cable landings and such and said "this should be interesting to you". Turns out it was so interesting it was his site in the first place. The internet is a small place... :D
 
Darg said:
They're not buried, just laid on the sea-bed.

Very interesting map, I've always been curious about these.

I think portcuarno was the site of the first telegraph cable across the atlantic, saw it on james mays 20th century i think. Might be a different spot though but it's somewhere down there.
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I was there 2 weeks ago, they have a great telegraphy museum where they can demonstrate all the different cables, how it all evolved etc, all in all a very good morning :)

It is Porthcurno, lovely beach too. :)
 
Very interesting, thanks. Weird to see the differences between transfer speeds on cables right next to eachother. I know they're not easy to upgrade and all but still ^^
 
the_chicco said:
I'm quite sure I read an article recently that mentioned how the NSA, etc are able to place taps and grab data despite the astonishingly high data rates, I will try to find the link.
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NSA have been doing it for years and years one way or another. Right back to after the war with 'Shamrock' where they got copies of every telegram sent.

They can tap pretty much anything they like. Some of the kit they use is astonishing.

It's no coincidence that NSA/GCHQ have buildings located at each of the landing sites in their respective countries ;)
 
It shows to me that Russia has no Internet cables at all, surely the most technologically advanced Country in terms of warfare at least has found the time to lay some internet cables.
 
Lee2k4 said:
It shows to me that Russia has no Internet cables at all, surely the most technologically advanced Country in terms of warfare at least has found the time to lay some internet cables.
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It's showing undersea cables, most of theirs will be going through landmass and even then, it's missing a lot of undersea cables. Like Jersey/Guernsey!
 
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