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Mapping the Internet

MADAGASCAR PERCENTAGE OF SUBMARINE FIBER OPTIC COUNTRY Mombasa 20 POPULATION THAT Mumbai KENYA SOUTH AFRICA USES THE Singapore 40 INTERNET Cape Town INDIA AFRICA Riyadh 60 Jakarta Karachi Kolkata Bangkok THAILAND IRAN Delhi INDONESIA Baghdad EGYPT 80 Cairo CHINA TURKEY 100% Manila Istanbul NIGERIA Hong Kong Taipei Shanghai ASIA Kiev Lagos Moscow Amsterdam Beijing Warsaw Abidjan -Seoul RUSSIA Madrid London Casablanca AUSTRALIA Tokyo Stockholm GUAM JAPAN ICELAND Sydney NORTH POLE GREENLAND Rio de Janeiro New York CANADA São Paulo BRAZIL NEW ZEALAND UNITED STATES San Luis Obispo Los Angeles SOUTH AMERICA HAWAII Miami Buenos Aires MEXICO Lima ARGENTINA Santiado FRENCH POLYNESIA DATA: GEOTEL LLC MAP: NICOLAS RAPP FOR FORTUNE PACIFIC OCEAN ATLANTIC OCEAN

Mapping the Internet

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If the Internet is a global phenomenon, it's because there are fiber-optic cables underneath the ocean. Light goes in on one shore and comes out the other, making these tubes the fundamental conduit o... f information throughout the global village. To make the light travel enormous distances, thousands of volts of electricity are sent through the cable's copper sleeve to power repeaters, each the size and roughly the shape of a 600-pound bluefin tuna. One rests on the ocean floor every 50 miles or so. Inside its pressurized case is a miniature racetrack of the element erbium, which, when energized, gooses the particles of light along like a waterwheel.

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fortune

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Nicholas Rapp