The Katittuq Nunavut Fibre Link, labelled as 2025, had its tender cancelled this year.<p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nunavut-cancels-tender-for-fibre-optic-line-internet-1.6900346" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nunavut-cancels-tender-...</a><p>> Nunavut is the only province or territory in the country [Canada] without access to fibre internet. The project would bring fibre to both Iqaluit and nearby Kimmirut.<p>Right now, everything is over satellite. Too bad the big "internet cache" systems don't have sneakernet approaches to filling their caches. Unsure if their local ISP does any kind of caching. So every stream/download/update, etc. is its own "hit" over the downlink.<p>Thanks to Canada's terrible mobile telecom pricing and lacklustre competition, a cell phone with a dataplan in this territory is cost-competitive with the rest of the country...<p><a href="https://www.qiniq.com/mobile/#plans" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.qiniq.com/mobile/#plans</a>
Some years ago I visited the Transatlantic Cable Station on Valencia Island off the west coast of Ireland, from where the first submarine telegraph cable was laid to Newfoundland in 1857. After several attempts the cable reached Newfoundland in 1866.<p>Before that moment the fastest way to get a message from Europe to America was aboard a ship; two weeks or so. After that it could be sent over a cable with Morse code.<p><a href="https://valentiaisland.ie/valentia-transatlantic-cable-station/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://valentiaisland.ie/valentia-transatlantic-cable-stati...</a>
If this sort of thing interests you, I highly recommend "Mother Earth Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson. Probably my favourite piece of writing in Wired.<p><a href="https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/</a>
There's a rotating sphere at the top of the map, but part of it is black, and apparently you're not supposed to use it? It's just decoration?<p>You scroll down to what you think is the map, but it immediately gets covered by a caption, so you scroll down more ...<p>It turns out that downloads for the actual map are at the top of the page.
I love these maps, and I'm glad they provide downloads like [1]. I wish the resolution was a bit higher. As it is the names of the towns on the coasts can be read with difficulty.<p>[1] <a href="https://submarine-cable-map-2023.telegeography.com/images/Submarine_Cable_Map_2023_Global-1fc0c54628f0c600d7d7b6293dba3a91.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://submarine-cable-map-2023.telegeography.com/images/Su...</a>
The interactive online version is available here:<p><a href="https://www.submarinecablemap.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.submarinecablemap.com/</a>
Given all the compute infrastructure in Ireland, I'm surprised it still has no direct connection to continental Europe (they all go through the UK first).
Is it safe to assume that there exists a lot of cables that
we are not supposed to know about or at least that are not
public and not on such amps?<p>I have long been thinking that the NSA must have some high capacity
"black" cables to help the surveillance of the internet.
Primarily to capture data, sending all the captured data back
through the public internet would be counterproductive.<p>A 5eye private subsea network?<p>I would assume other countries have some for similar reasons
It's amazing how many cables there are routing through the Suez Canal, especially directly connecting Mumbai all the way through to Marseille.<p>I wonder how well protected they are specifically in the Suez Canal. Presumably the whole area is pretty well surveilled by the Egyptian government, but I have no clue. I just think it's really interesting how many cables are (understandably) routed this way and wonder whether there is full backup redundancy in the few cables running around south of Africa.
Well a random check of one cable (Gemini Bermuda) shows it was decommissioned in 2004. I wonder how up to date the rest is (based on this one entirely random check).<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(submarine_communications_cable)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(submarine_communicatio...</a>
If the world could run power along all these submarine telecoms cables then we'd be a lot further towards solving the problem of renewable power generation. I wonder how these kinds of cables compare to HVDC cables in terms of size and cost.
I'm not seeing my favorite, Honotua. It connects Hawai'i to Tahiti. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honotua" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honotua</a>
This has to be the worst possible way to present this. Just give us a, you know, MAP. With openable annotations and panning so we aren't locked in some view we didn't navigate to with tons of info about something we didn't actually seek out.
I have a 5k display and I can't even quite make the page wide enough to view the entire globe. How are people with regular displays supposed to view it? What a disaster of a presentation!