Undersea Cable Map Shows Where The Data Pipes Are

"Greg Mahlknecht has built a free map showing the world's submarine telecommunications cable systems. The map, which took Mahlknecht several months to complete, is free of charge and will remain so.'" (At least until it gets shut down as a security threat.)

Re:Looks like the old telegraph maps

[albertid]

Nice observation! An even older communication system also resembles the pipes to some degree, namely the major trade routes from 1400-1800: http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch5en/conc5en/tradeflows14001800.html [hofstra.edu]

Re:Always wondered..

[dkettmann76]

Looking through the presentation archives of the NANOG meetings ( http://www.nanog.org/presentations/archive/ [nanog.org] ) has some great stuff on undersea cables and also ISP peering, etc.

Re:Anyone that can tap a line could build this map

[Jstlook]

Who is this Greg Mahlknecht?

A guy who saw that there was a really cool poster that cost money, and decided to make himself a free version. Of course, had he asked the people who sold the poster, he might have found out they have an electronic copy available to download at no cost.

Ah well.