Worldwide Undersea Cable Map
This map shows how the huge complicated network of undersea cables which keep the internet running is spread around the world.
Worldwide undersea cable map. As many as 107 new submarine cables totaling over 400 000 kilometers will be deployed from 2016 2020 with a value of over 13 8 billion. A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. Buy the wall map. 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.
The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried telegraphy traffic establishing the first instant telecommunications links between continents such as the first transatlantic telegraph cable which became. Submarine cable map 2019. The world s network of submarine cables. Telegeography s submarine cable map has been updated for 2019.
Submarine cables are decidedly uncool. 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. 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. Investing in the cables.