The History Of Undersea Cable Maps

Every yr Telegeography unloosen a novel updated undersea cable map of the world. Last calendar month they released their 2018 Submarine Cable Map. There are right away to a greater extent than or less 428 submarine cables communicating information to a greater extent than or less the world. The full length of all these cables is most 1.1 meg kilometers.

Of cast this hasn't ever been the example too the disclose of cables has grown inwards tandem alongside the increment of the Internet. Quartz has created an interactive map which shows this increment inwards undersea cables over the concluding 28 years. The Explosive Growth of Underwater Cables is an animated map which shows undersea cables beingness added to a greater extent than or less the globe every yr since 1990.

Of cast the Quartz map is a niggling misleading equally it seems to propose at that topographic point were no underseas cables earlier 1990. In fact the offset transatlantic undersea telegraph cable was position inwards 1858. An undersea telegraph cable betwixt United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland too French Republic was position earlier that inwards 1850.


The Eastern too Associated Telegraph Companies Cable System map of 1922 shows an extensive undersea telegraph cable system. Atlantic-Cable has compiled a collection of like vintage maps of the world's undersea telegraph cable organisation from 1850 until 1992 - it thence dovetails pretty neatly alongside the Quartz map of Internet fiber cables, starting inwards 1990.