Cool map of undersea cables
This is just a really cool map.
"The vast bulk of international telephone and Internet traffic travels through underwater cables. This map shows the cables that were in use as of the end of 2004 and gives an indication of where traffic is heaviest." (from News.Com)
(from News.com, from TeleGeography Research, from Primetrica)
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That's a cool map indeed. About five years ago I had a meeting at Global Crossing's Manhattan office. GC built a huge backbone of fiber optics between continents. In this incredibly swank place on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park they had several photographs on the wall which really summed up their core competence. A group of Central American laborers were pulling a thick bundle of cable ashore, and off in the distance behind them, floating on the blue sea, was cable laying trawler carrying an enormous spool of fiber optic cable. I can't find that image on Google, but it's etched in my mind.
Yes, it's easy to laugh now at GC's enormous hubris and subsequent crash, but they did some amazing things, early on.
Posted by: Brian Del Vecchio | April 13, 2006 02:50 PM