{"id":412,"date":"2011-04-11T09:51:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2012-07-12T15:53:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T22:53:24","slug":"fat-pipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Fat pipes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not too long ago I remember the surprise in my wife’s face when I explained how transoceanic cables -big, long, fat pipes running along the bottom of the seas- were responsible for the magical transmission of ones and zeroes that we call the Internet.<\/p>\n

Thanks to an article on consolidation of providers by GigaOM<\/a> I can now show her graphically, too!
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These are some of the cables that were reportedly cut\/sabotaged in early 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/em> a much better resource here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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