TeleGeography’s Submarine Cable Map not too long ago hit a brand new milestone: depicting over 600 cable programs.
As of September 2024, that’s a whopping 532 in-service programs, with one other 77 deliberate.
The variety of cable programs we examine is continually growing. This is because of large funding on this infrastructure—each alongside main routes and to small islands—in addition to our ongoing efforts to trace international programs in additional element.
The variety of in-service programs is larger now than in another yr throughout the final twenty years.
What’s included on this depend?
We concentrate on publicly-known communications programs; undersea traces solely devoted to energy transmission, analysis networks, and personal authorities use are excluded. As soon as cables are retired, we take away them from our on-line map.
Final yr, I had the possibility to hitch my colleague Greg Bryan on TeleGeography Explains the Web to speak by the cable-tracking course of.
You possibly can take heed to the total episode over right here.
What can we imply by cable programs?
The variety of cable programs we monitor is totally different from the full point-to-point connections proven on the map.
The variety of cable programs we monitor is totally different from the full point-to-point connections proven on the map.
Every cable system is uniquely designed to suit its capability necessities and native geography. As such, it could comprise a number of segments or branches, as do over half of the programs on our map.
The distinction between cable programs and segments is most simply demonstrated within the Atlantic. Though there are solely 13 in-service trans-Atlantic cable programs, 17 segments truly cross this route.
That is made doable by programs like Vodafone’s Apollo, which celebrated its twentieth birthday final yr. Apollo connects the U.S., France, and the U.Ok. by two parallel paths—one North, the opposite South, and every with their very own pair of touchdown stations.
Interactive map followers might be aware of our month-to-month cable trivia. We not too long ago requested map viewers to ponder the common variety of landings per system on the map. Our winner acknowledged the complexity of subsea system design by accurately guessing not two, not three, however 5!
Together with a recent trivia query, our workforce rolled out some new map options this month. Customers can now:
- Search by area and route. Navigate to the brand new Area and Route pages by typing Related to [region name] or Related to [route name] within the search discipline.
- Filter alternatives by a variety of RFS years. A brand new Filter button is on the market within the sidebar on Area, Nation, Touchdown Level, Route, and Provider pages that return a listing of three or extra cables.
Head over to submarinecablemap.com to get pleasure from these updates.
