The TeleGeography map gallery
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The telecommunications market research and consulting firm TeleGeography have a big and nice gallery of maps with maps of global internet communication, submarine cables and voice traffic. They have both static and interactive maps. On the maps above you can see that there is a big cable between Norway and Svalbard. This is mainly due to the Svalbard Satellite Station, which downloads information from most of the polar orbiting satellites (for customers like NASA and ESA). These maps show the huge amounts of information being sent through the internet every second, and I, who has grown up in the internet age, can’t imagine how it was before the internet.