Fact: Before 2009, only 16 African countries were connected to a submarine cable system. Since then, 26 cable systems have been deployed to connect the region.
When we thought about our first Spotlight interview of 2017, we wanted to do something that looked at the surging investment in new submarine cables.
Great news. TeleGeography’s 2017 Middle East Telecommunications Map, sponsored by Telecom Egypt, is now available for purchase.
We went 12 years without building a new cable in the Atlantic. In the last two years we've seen two builds, another announced, and more planned.
This might be why our VP of Research Tim Stronge recently asked a group of PTC 2017 attendees if we're in a submarine cable bubble.
There's no doubt that we've seen shifts in the colocation landscape as of late.
Content providers are moving closer to the network edge. There's been fast growth in certain Asian markets. And in the last two years about 20 new local internet exchanges have been deployed globally.
We've all seen shifts in the colocation landscape over the last year. So what does 2017 have in store?
We're hosting a webinar on this topic with Digital Realty Director of Project Marketing Scott Sherwood and VP of Global Product Management Ben Gonyea on February 28, 2017, at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT.
Here's a good one from the archives.
"America and Europe will soon be linked by the first trans-Atlantic telephone cables," reads this March 1954 article from Popular Mechanics.
