Subsea Cables & Internet Infrastructure

Mombasa/Dar es Salaam; $15,100; 1 Year; 2Africa. Mombasa/Djibouti; $15,100; 1 Year; 2Africa. Mombasa/Amanzimtoti; $18,100; 1 Year; 2Africa. Capetown/Amanzimtoti; $10,900; 1 Year; 2Africa.

This past autumn I did a post based on two insider conversations about an under-the-radar Facebook cable that would span the world with a W shape. I was told the cable would directly dconnect the US to South Africa and then head straight to India and onward to Australia before landing on the West Coast of the US. My theory at the time was that this was an AI driven project since the routing really didn't match Internet traffic flows or even connect to major Internet exchange points. The purported route latencies would be quite high. So I figured its purpose was to move 'Big Data'. I am surprised to say I was right.  The one deviation from my initial understanding is that the cable will land in Brazil before veering for South Africa. A Brazil landing makes perfect sense in retrospect because Facebook's current capacity down to South America is limited. It may have a fibre pair on Google's Firmina cable, but I've seen no announcements or acknowledgements to suppor...

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 My calculations indicate that at least 2.5 Petabits per second of new subsea cable transmission capacity landing in Europe over the next few years. Note that this is initial capacity, and undoubtedly, there will be upgrades in due time. Below is my calculation. The Amazon project is stealth at this time and I assumed a lower bound of 100 Tbps. Consider the Initial Capacity of New And Pending Cables: 1. Equiano: 144 Tbps. Live 2023. 2. 2Africa: 180 Tbps. Live 2025. 3. Blue-Raman: 218 Tbps. Live 2026. 4. Anjana: 480 Tbps. Live 2026.  5. Nuvem: 384 Tbps. Live 2027. 6. Medusa: 480 Tbps. Live 2025.  7. Africa-1: 160 Tbps. Live 2025. 8. Peace. 192 Tbps. Live December 2024. 9. SWM6: 125 Tbps. Live early 2026. 10. New Amazon Cable: US/Ireland. 2028. At least 100 Tbps. Total: 2.5 Petabits Per Second Initial Capacity.

The Quantum Internet means among other things that if the NSA or Chinese state hackers try to eavesdrop on a communication link, the link immediately collapses. It's the ultimate in security because the information is stored in quantum states, but quantum states collapse when measured by third parties. The no-cloning theorem of quantum mechanics says that quantum states cannot be copied so a third party cannot eavesdrop on a two party link. There is no way to copy the quantum state in which information is encoded and if you try so, the communication link vanishes. In other words, surveillance destroys the information it wants to copy and the link going down informs the two parties communicating that the link has been compromsed. 😃 Good riddance, Big Brother. The presenter is an Australian physicist who provides a good, but highly detailed explanation of how quantum mechanics works and why it will one day transform the Internet. Fasten your seat belts because Matt does not dumb thi...

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