Undersea Fiber Optic Cable Map

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.

Undersea fiber optic cable map.

Interactive submarine cable map of fiber optic submarine cable systems around the world. Behind the cable boom. Submarine cable map 2019. The world s network of submarine cables.

After maintaining the map for years it has become difficult for me to find time to continue the work. View the above visualization at full resolution for the best experience. Investing in the cables. On july 29 1858 two steam powered battleships met in the middle of the atlantic ocean.

There they connected two ends of a 4 000 kilometer 2 500 mile long 1 5 centimeter 0 6 inch wide cable. The map and data will always remain free and i m confident the new custodians will do the project justice. The 12 091 km long cable has nine terminal stations operated by leading telecom carriers from eight countries. Aae 1 spanning over 25 000 kilometres 16 000 mi connects southeast asia to europe via egypt.

But while they lack the flashiness of satellites it s actually the world s vast network of fiber optic cables that does most of the heavy lifting in keeping our information flowing from place to place. Fortuantely there is a team who is keen to take the project further and improve on it. Buy the wall map.