Maps
Sep 9, 2024

How Many Submarine Cables Are There, Anyway?

TeleGeography’s Submarine Cable Map recently hit a new milestone: depicting over 600 cable systems.

As of September 2024, that’s a whopping 532 in-service systems, with another 77 planned.

The number of cable systems we study is constantly increasing. This is due to massive investment in this infrastructure—both along major routes and to small islands—as well as our ongoing efforts to track global systems in more detail. 

The number of in-service systems is greater now than in any other year within the last two decades.
May 30, 2024

Where Are All the Internet Exchanges?

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.
Apr 9, 2024

What Did Our Submarine Cable Map Look Like in 1999?

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 this year’s Submarine Cable Map.
Feb 26, 2024

Introducing the 2024 Africa Telecommunications Map

If you liked last week's Submarine Cable Map reveal, you'll be stoked to hear that we've got another new map up our sleeve.

Meet the 2024 Africa Telecommunications Map.
Feb 19, 2024

This Is Not a Drill: The 2024 Submarine Cable Map Is Here

Meet the latest addition to our map repertoire, the 2024 Submarine Cable Map.

Sponsored by Telecom Egypt, this handsome new edition explores global connectivity from the sea to the cloud, depicting 559 cable systems and 1,636 landings that are currently active or under construction.
Jan 12, 2024

A Free Map a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Note: Our January promotion has ended, but you can still win a free map!
Click here to answer this month’s trivia question.
Oct 2, 2023

The TG Eras Tour: Journeying Through Three Decades of Maps

Taylor Swift and TeleGeography have something in common—we were both born in 1989. And much like everyone’s favorite pop star, we are taking a tour through the ages (of our maps, that is).
Sep 28, 2023

Keeping Subsea Cables Safe

Another month, another list of interesting telecom reads (and listens).

Here are a few things you ought to have on your radar, including a podcast episode about submarine cable geopolitics, a handsome take on our Submarine Cable Map, a new cloud data center presentation, and more.
Jun 14, 2023

Get Acquainted With Our Cloud Infrastructure 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.
Apr 12, 2023

The Inspiration Behind This Year’s Submarine Cable Map Design

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?

 

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