There's been lots of conversation about the recent boom in submarine cable construction. This flurry of activity becomes clearer when our annual map is viewed over time.
Subsea cables power the internet under oceans all over the world. But how many cables are there?
Make some space on your wall.
The 2025 Africa Telecommunications Map is out—and it pairs perfectly with this year’s Submarine Cable Map.
Happy New Year? Now it is, because we just dropped our 2025 Submarine Cable Map.
Sponsored by Telecom Egypt, this futuristic, high-contrast design depicts 597 cable systems and 1,712 landings that are currently active or under construction.
If you’re a regular on this blog, you're probably familiar with our submarine cable and cloud infrastructure maps.
But you may not know about the third tool in our interactive map tool belt: the internet exchange map.
The TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map is our longest-running map project. We started producing submarine cable maps in 1999, and we're still going strong 25 years later.
Just for fun, let’s compare the very first edition—called the Global Communications Cable and Satellite Map—to our 2024 Submarine Cable Map.
If you're not familiar with TeleGeography’s Cloud Infrastructure Map—a free tool that tracks cloud data centers and on-ramps both built and planned—now is a great time to get acquainted.
Why, you ask? When our team updated the Cloud and WAN Research Service for 2023, the Cloud Infrastructure Map also got a refresh.
Keep reading to get the lowdown on our latest version and why you ought to be using it.
While our interactive submarine cable map is updated on a rolling basis, printed editions are unveiled annually. Each edition has a different theme, and our team always tries to out-do last year’s release.
Can you guess what inspired our latest design?
There's a good chance that you first heard about TeleGeography through one of our maps. Research Analyst Lane Burdette was introduced to TeleGeography when she came across our Submarine Cable Map a few years ago.
Now part of the team that creates this resource, Lane is understandably excited about this week's 2023 Submarine Cable Map launch. It seems like the perfect time to welcome her and Designer and Cartographer Larry Lairson to TeleGeography Explains the Internet.
Our regional maps have taken us to all corners of the globe. We've used them to explore telecommunications in the Middle East and track new cable projects in Africa.
Today, we're adding Latin America to that list. That's right—TeleGeography’s beautiful Latin America Telecommunications Map is finally here. It zeroes in on cable activity throughout South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
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