{"id":9329,"date":"2019-06-06T06:53:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T14:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=9329"},"modified":"2019-04-24T07:55:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:55:39","slug":"internet-99-of-data-is-in-the-sea-not-the-cloud-underwater-cabling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/internet-99-of-data-is-in-the-sea-not-the-cloud-underwater-cabling\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet: 99% of Data is in the Sea, not the Cloud: Underwater Cabling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are more than 1.2 billion kilometers of submarine cables<\/a> circling the globe, transmitting internet data. About 97 percent of all intercontinental data is transferred by underwater cables. The cables enable people to connect to the internet globally — now more than half the world’s population has access to the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jayne Stowell<\/a>, manager of Google\u2019s undersea cable projects, said that<\/a> “people think that data is in the cloud, but it\u2019s not. It\u2019s in the ocean… It really is management of a very complex multidimensional chess board”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than half of underwater cables<\/a> now are owned by large internet content providers, like Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Submarine Cable Map<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stowell said that<\/a> “there are geographical pinch points in a global network\u2014based on the reality of populations, oceans, and geography\u2014that can\u2019t be avoided, just planned and engineered around.”<\/p>\n

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There are more than 1.2 billion kilometers of submarine cables circling the globe, transmitting internet data. About 97 percent of all intercontinental data is transferred by underwater cables. The cables enable people to connect to the internet globally — now…<\/span><\/p>\n

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