Untangling the world-wide mesh of undersea cables
The work
| Title | Untangling the world-wide mesh of undersea cables |
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| Authors | Zachary S. Bischof; Romain Fontugne; Fabián E. Bustamante |
| Type | conference paper |
| Year | 2018 |
| Citekey | bischof2018untangling |
Where it appeared
| Published in | Proceedings of the 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks |
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| Publisher | ACM |
| Pages | 78--84 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.1145/3286062.3286074 |
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Access
| Free full text | https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3286062.3286074 |
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Abstract
The growth of global Internet traffic has driven an exponential expansion of the submarine cable network, both in terms of the sheer number of links and its total capacity. Today, a complex mesh of hundreds of cables, stretching over 1 million kilometers, connects nearly every corner of the earth and is instrumental in closing the remaining connectivity gaps. Despite the scale and critical role of the submarine network for both business and society at large, our community has mostly ignored it, treating it as a black box in most Internet studies, from connectivity to inter-domain traffic and reliability. We make the case for a new research agenda focused on characterizing the global submarine network and the critical role it plays as a basic component of any inter-continental end-to-end connection.
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| Retrieved | 2026-08-13 |
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| Where it came from | https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3286062.3286074 |
Where this came from
| How it got here | already cited · cited in bibtex |
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| First seen | 2026-08-11 |
| Record | reviewed by a person |
| Approved | 2026-08-21 |
Cite it as
@inproceedings{bischof2018untangling,
title = {Untangling the world-wide mesh of undersea cables},
author = {Zachary S. Bischof and Romain Fontugne and Fabián E. Bustamante},
year = {2018},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks},
pages = {78--84},
publisher = {ACM},
doi = {10.1145/3286062.3286074},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3286062.3286074},
}
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