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It always amazes me the fact that there are cables that are around 5,500 miles long that run all the way across the pacific ocean from Japan to the US.
This is an undersea cable map, but it's from 2004.
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The horrific earthquake and the ensuing tsunami in Japan have caused widespread damage to undersea communications, according to data collected by telecom industry sources. Initially, it was thought that the damage to the cables that connect Japan and Asia to each other and other parts of the world was limited, but new data shows the extent of the problems.
According to research firm, Telegeography, the following cables have been damaged:
APCN-2, which is an intra-Asian cable, forms a ring linking China, Hong Kong, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan.
Pacific Crossing West and Pacific Crossing North, which are out of service.
PacNet has reported outages on segments of its East Asia Crossing network.
Korea Telecom reports that a segment of the Japan-U.S. Cable Network is damaged
NTT has reported damage to some segments of the PC-1 submarine cable system.
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This is an undersea cable map, but it's from 2004.
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The horrific earthquake and the ensuing tsunami in Japan have caused widespread damage to undersea communications, according to data collected by telecom industry sources. Initially, it was thought that the damage to the cables that connect Japan and Asia to each other and other parts of the world was limited, but new data shows the extent of the problems.
According to research firm, Telegeography, the following cables have been damaged:
APCN-2, which is an intra-Asian cable, forms a ring linking China, Hong Kong, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan.
Pacific Crossing West and Pacific Crossing North, which are out of service.
PacNet has reported outages on segments of its East Asia Crossing network.
Korea Telecom reports that a segment of the Japan-U.S. Cable Network is damaged
NTT has reported damage to some segments of the PC-1 submarine cable system.
Complete Story
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