Got fiber?

[giza]

In case folks are curious, here is a relatively recent map of undersea fiber used for Internet connectivity:



Note that a good chunk of the transatlantic cables go north of the UK, to Denmark and Germany, then back through the English channel. And people wonder why .de and .dk are so wired. :-)

Also note which countries, regions, and continents are not very well wired, and the relative financial and social states of those countries.

Comments

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

If enough anchors get accidently drug around India, maybe the telephone support would be worth something again. :)

[triggur.livejournal.com]

... part of your ongoing fascination with fiber... the glass kind and the kind that makes your butt work.

^.^

[giza.livejournal.com]

That reminds me, did you know there is such a thing as "non-fermenting fiber" (http://ibdcrohns.about.com/cs/dietandibs/bb/bybfiber.htm)?

I've been taking a form of Methylcellulose for about 3 weeks now. The co-workers within the 2 cube "blast radius" of mine like it too. :-)

[dracoprime.livejournal.com]

You just told me a lot more about youself than I really wanted to know...

[quentincoyote.livejournal.com]

Heh, wow.. That's pretty cool! ^.^

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

shouldn't there be a big-ass chunk missing out of the Mediterranean, at the moment?

[giza.livejournal.com]

Why?

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/dubai.outage/index.html

dat's why.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Ah, could be.

I'm still surprised that an entire region relied on a single cable for their Internet access.

BGP? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

[pengolodh-sc.livejournal.com]

There were three cables, of which two were damaged. The surviving cable is the oldest, with the lowest capacity.

Re: awesome

[giza.livejournal.com]

Until relatively recently Australia's telecom was controlled by Telstra, a state-owned monopoly. As a result, the customers got screwed. Not unlike what AT&T did to us through the 1980s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System_divestiture

[rexxwolfe.livejournal.com]

that is kinda neat it tells you much about resources whos taking the bigger shares as well as geography climate and many other things. I honestly expected more going to Japan and Australia.

[frostyw.livejournal.com]

There are actually some underseas cables cut between Egypt and parts of Europe, which is affecting many of the major carriers. Normally, one cable would back up the other, but by some astronomical chance, both have been cut.

[camstone.livejournal.com]

Also note which countries, regions, and continents are not very well wired, and the relative financial and social states of those countries.

Since overland fiber is not shown, you can't really make that claim. And too, there is little said here about satellite coverage, so... while at a lower bitrate, it's not all that limited.

When someone gets a overlay of population density and fiber over land, then we can maybe start to make some inferences...

[moonfires.livejournal.com]

Something didn't look 100% with that map, and clicking on it confirmed it for me. Those cables are the Telephone and Internet connections (not solely internet). That kind of explains the huge bunch going over the Atlantic and terminating in the UK (the TAT fibers). That little thin line along Africa's west coast is the SAT-3 cable that still has a 120 Gbps capacity (though part of that is allocated for phone). So that map is a gross oversimplification of the availability of internet bandwidth available to areas and really just a not so pretty map of undersea fiber.