CABLE TIES
May 29, 2019
3 minutes
WORDS BY LAWRENCE SCHÄFFLER
PHOTOGRAPHY SUPPLIED
Submarine cables? What happened to orbiting satellites and on-demand-wireless-connectivity? Well, as it turns out, those technologies have speed, latency and capacity issues – which is why an estimated 99% of all global digital data traffic runs across the submarine network.
This includes your emails, photos, videos and social media – a frenetic 24/7 merry-go-round orchestrated in no small part by the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, interconnecting more than four billion internet users.
In addition,
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