[HN Gopher] Interactive Submarine Cable Map ___________________________________________________________________ Interactive Submarine Cable Map Author : gnososphere Score : 126 points Date : 2022-10-06 16:35 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.submarinecablemap.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.submarinecablemap.com) | RyanShook wrote: | If you want to learn more about the first transatlantic cable | check out How the World Was One by Arthur C. Clarke. Reading it | now and really enjoying it: https://amzn.to/3EiACjU | jaffee wrote: | That's _Sir_ Arthur C. Clarke to you! | bombcar wrote: | I like that if you zoom in on the US, you don't see states but | you do see Indian Nations. | | Also, this cable is neat: | https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/gulf-of-me... | dtgriscom wrote: | Are the North Pacific cables from the US to Japan really that | evenly spaced, or is it "chust for pretty"? | alhirzel wrote: | I wonder if there is a version of this that includes domestic | cables? Navigational charts generally show them (as well as | various "DO NOT ANCHOR" signage denoting them). It would be cool | to see what the more "minor" or "non-international" underwater | infrastructure looks like. | krastanov wrote: | Is there a version of this that includes the bandwidth provided | by each cable? What is the total cable bandwidth between the East | Coast North America and Europe? | topspin wrote: | First thing I looked for as well. | renewiltord wrote: | Actually really cool. I wish it had a quick X to Y search. Japan | to Hong Kong, for instance. | AdamH12113 wrote: | Interesting that there are a couple cables directly connecting | China and Taiwan. I wonder how those agreements were worked out? | tastyfreeze wrote: | Every time this pops up I wish that it was merged with the | overland cable maps for a global network view. Turns out | something like that exists. | | https://www.infrapedia.com/ | divbzero wrote: | Infrapedia looks incredible and far more detailed. When zoomed | in, Infrapedia accurately displays the ends of cables down to | the street and building. | Havoc wrote: | Anybody know why they don't terminate in big population centers | even if they're near a river, but rather some random place | outside of it? | | e.g. London...zero direct landings. | advisedwang wrote: | * Cheaper to put telecoms&DC facilities out of expensive areas | | * Little benefit from landing in the urban area | | * Cities often have extra regulatory requirements | | * Higher risk of cable breaks if you are in an area with lots | of development or in a river with dredging | zahrc wrote: | The CLION terminates in Rostock which is quite hit and near a | river, called Warnow. | | https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/c-lion1 | supergeek wrote: | In the US there are quite a few landings just outside of NYC | and LA. I'd guess London is too far inland, and it's cheaper to | run fiber over land. | | There is probably also an incentive to keep the cables away | from major shipping lanes where they'd disrupt the ability for | ships dropping anchor. Notice around Seattle some cables snake | up and through the sound, but it's also extremely deep water. | That landing is also far north of the city proper, so any ships | waiting near port are a ways from the landing site. | bombcar wrote: | As others have mentioned, the more you get close to a | population center the more activity is happening, even | underwater in rivers. | | Anchors are being drug, there are other already existing lines, | it's all quite complicated. | | If you have a fatpipe already running OUT of the city center, | it can be much easier to join up to that elsewhere, and then | dip into the drink. | booboofixer wrote: | I imagine a map of some major long haul cables on land would be | interesting too. | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan-China_Fiber_Optic_Pro... | 1970-01-01 wrote: | Somewhat related is the Starlink live coverage map. | | https://starlink.sx/ | loufe wrote: | I work up at the north of Hudson's Bay in Quebec, where we're all | eagerly awaiting the arrival of the fibre connection. For those | curious, all cables in grey seem to incomplete projects. For | instance, the Kattittuq Nunavut cable only just got funding. | statusfailed wrote: | If this interests you, you will probably enjoy my favourite Wired | article of all time: "Mother Earth Mother Board"[0] (By Neal | Stephenson! in 1996!) | | [0]: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ | aesch wrote: | It's cool seeing the map of the cable he writes about, FLAG: | https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/flag-europ... | walrus01 wrote: | This is literally the article that resulted in my mid-1990s | teenage self being motivated to work in ISP core network | engineering, which is what I've been doing now for twenty | years... | | I wish Stephenson would write more things like this in addition | to his novels. | gnososphere wrote: | https://github.com/telegeography/www.submarinecablemap.com | | Built with data from TeleGeography: | https://www2.telegeography.com/ | nathas wrote: | Is there a large format print version of this available? I'd love | this as a big poster. | ocius wrote: | Really impressive! World-spanning infrastructure. Beautiful map, | also. | bombcar wrote: | I love how the cable-layers carefully made all those US-EU | cables perfectly parallel. | insane_dreamer wrote: | The effort that it must have taken to lay the "Polar Express" | cable for such a thin population -- you think they'd just use | satellite access. | standardUser wrote: | That made me think that laying underwater cable must be very | economical. There's lots of loops that look completely | unnecessary, like the Gulf of Mexico. But maybe it was cheaper | than installing cables on land? And the terrain of Northern | Russia is probably a lot harder to deal with than Texas. | kzrdude wrote: | The length of it is exaggerated on the map due to map | projection (obligatory comment). In reality it's about as long | as the one connecting Oregon to Taiwan (which is long, but not | record-setting.) | | Probably a pretty important project to do that one for Russia | anyway, it connects all parts of the country. | briffle wrote: | Sure does explain why the first Datacenter for Google and | Facebook were both in Oregon. that is a ton of pipes to Asia. | kijiki wrote: | Also tons of cheap hydro-power. There used to be lots of | Aluminum smelting up there, but that mostly moved out of | country in the late 70's/early 80's. | reaperducer wrote: | Submitted to HN 30 times since 2011. I wonder if that's a record. | axelav wrote: | It's a classic but I do enjoy having a look at it every few | years. | kozziollek wrote: | Especially when somebody launches new cable (Google, | Equiano). ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-06 23:00 UTC)