Fans of our map-centric e-book Mapping Communication are in luck.
Thanks to the kind sponsorship from the team at AquaComms, we've updated the 2018 edition with our telecom map creations from the last three years.
Today seems like a good day to unveil our 2021 Submarine Cable Map, don't you agree?
Step right up. Today we're touring TeleGeography's latest Global Internet Map. (For your safety, please keep your hands, arms, and legs inside the vehicle at all times.)
Early in the calendar year is map design season around TeleGeography. Colorful proofs arrive at the office, which the design team pores over, so as not to miss any details. No cable left behind. No design flourish left unexamined.
So when the DC office packed up and transitioned to remote work in March 2020, we were left to wonder: how were we going to finish our cable map from within quarantine?
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.
How does one go about keeping track of nearly 400 submarine cable systems and over 1,000 landing stations?
Carefully, with lots of precise, year-round tracking, as it turns out.
In today's post, we're sharing secrets from our mapmakers about how our submarine cable map designs come together.
We’ve been making maps for a long time–since 1996, if you can believe it.
Our maps don the walls of telecom companies, network operations centers, regulatory agencies, boardrooms, and even museums. Two dozen have even found their way into the Library of Congress.
There is a lot of telecom history in these designs.
You might not be surprised to learn that we have a lot of maps here at TeleGeography.
Earlier this year we fielded some of the most frequently asked questions about submarine cables. How do they work? How thick are they? How many kilometers of cable are there?
Today, we're going back under the sea to talk about what happens when bad things happen to good submarine cables.
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