The History Of Undersea Cables

H5N1 novel map from Quartz shows the history of undersea cables existence built to acquit mesh traffic to a greater extent than or less the world.

The map starts inward 1990 together with shows the master copy undersea mesh cables built inward Europe. As the map plays through the timeline you lot tin spotter how undersea cables convey spread across the globe. The Explosive Growth of Underwater Cables too includes a graph which shows the sum of global mesh traffic over this same fourth dimension period.


The Quartz animated map is based on information from TeleGeography. Every twelvemonth Telegeography usage their ain global maps of undersea cables. The 2016 edition of its Submarine Cable Map is an information rich interactive map. The principal 2016 map shows 321 undersea cable systems to a greater extent than or less the world, piece a publish of smaller inset maps clit some of the world's busiest landing stations.

You mightiness too similar TeleGeography's 2015 Submarine Cable Map. The 2015 map was inspired past times medieval together with renaissance cartography together with features some wonderful map edge illustrations together with fifty-fifty a publish of beautifully drawn body of body of water monsters.


If you lot desire to explore the history of global undersea mesh cables inward to a greater extent than special you lot tin sentiment Builtvisible's Messages inward the Deep interactive map. This Google Map visualizes the history of the increment of the undersea fibre oculus network to a greater extent than or less the footing since 1989.

The map allows you lot to sentiment the undersea cable network for whatsoever year, or you lot tin animate the map to sentiment how this global network has grown since 1989. The map too allows you lot to refine the cables shown past times cable owner. You tin click on whatsoever of the cables displayed on the map to sentiment it's length, it's showtime twelvemonth of functioning together with the cable's owners.