Submarine Cable Map | Markus Krisetya, Larry Lairson, Alan Mauldin

  • Submarine Cable Map
28/05/2014

Submarine Cable Map | Markus Krisetya, Larry Lairson, Alan Mauldin

This map shows the layout of the submarine fibre optic cable system that links us all, creating a great network. The layouts are divided into three colours, red for cables in service, yellow for planned cables, and black for damaged cables. It also shows data such as the accident at Alexandria where a boat cut two of the cables, reducing to 75% the capacity for the Internet in Asia or the Taiwan disaster where nine cables were accidentally cut and access to the Internet was deactivated for weeks, as well as quantitative or historical data.
Name of piece: Submarine Cable Map
Author: Markus Krisetya, Larry Lairson, Alan Mauldin
Year: 2014

Credits: TeleGeography. A Division of PriMetrica, Inc.