Yearly Telegeography publishes a complete, yearly up to date map that visualizes lively and deliberate submarine telecommunications cables around the globe. The futuristic wanting 2025 Submarine Cable Map was launched again in January. This map reveals the present extent of the world’s lively submarine telecommunications cables and people at the moment beneath development.
The Web Infrastructure Map lets you see how the present community of submarine telecommunication cables has developed over the past 36 years. The map combines two key parts of the web: submarine fiber-optic cables, which join continents throughout the ocean ground, and Web Alternate Factors (IXPs), the info hubs the place networks interconnect and alternate visitors.
One of many standout options of the Web Infrastructure Map is its animated timeline. Ranging from 1989, when the primary fashionable subsea cables appeared, you possibly can step yr by yr by means of time and watch the expansion of the worldwide web unfold on the map. The animation reveals how over time the sparse early connections developed into the dense intercontinental webs of cables of as we speak, with new methods being added virtually yearly. By sliding by means of to 2025, you possibly can actually watch the web’s spine increase, seeing when main routes have been constructed and the way new IXPs shifted regional connectivity patterns.
