The World Is Flat: The Undersea Fiber-Optic Cable Map

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If you have read “The World is Flat” by Thomas L. Friedman then you are familiar with the ten unique events that “flattened” the world in his estimation. One of those events was the overinvestment in transcontinental fiber-optic cables that led to the commoditization of bandwidth. Due to the abundant supply of bandwidth, transmission of data has become virtually free. The above image is a graphical representation of how fiber-optic cables connect our world.