TeleGeography’s Submarine Cable Map lately 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 consistently 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 world programs in additional element.
The variety of in-service programs is bigger now than in some other yr inside the final twenty years.
What’s included on this depend?
We deal with 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 way of the cable-tracking course of.
You’ll be able to hearken to the complete episode over right here.
What will we imply by cable programs?
The variety of cable programs we observe is totally different from the full point-to-point connections proven on the map.
The variety of cable programs we observe 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 might 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 really cross this route.
That is made potential by programs like Vodafone’s Apollo, which celebrated its twentieth birthday final yr. Apollo connects the U.S., France, and the U.Ok. by way of two parallel paths—one North, the opposite South, and every with their very own pair of touchdown stations.
Interactive map followers might be accustomed to our month-to-month cable trivia. We lately requested map viewers to ponder the typical 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 contemporary 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 choices by a spread of RFS years. A brand new Filter button is accessible within the sidebar on Area, Nation, Touchdown Level, Route, and Provider pages that return an inventory of three or extra cables.
Head over to submarinecablemap.com to take pleasure in these updates.
