Fortuantely there is a team who is keen to take the project further and improve on it.
Fiber optic cable map usa.
Cables are often installed with additional unused fibers.
While other companies are starting to offer fiber usi is the only company that delivers fiber directly to your house so you don t share it with the entire neighborhood making it the fastest most reliable internet connection available in the twin cities.
Computer science professor paul barford and a team of researchers recently published the first publicly available map of the us s long haul fiber optic cable network.
On this page is a collection of links to maps of us longhaul and intra regional fiber networks.
After maintaining the map for years it has become difficult for me to find time to continue the work.
To be on this list a provider should provide intercity transport services between at least 5 states.
1 to view reported fiber coverage in your area click on your state and zoom into your county.
Maps are links to material on company websites wherever possible.
Selecting a cable on the map projection or from the submarine cable list provides access to the cable s profile including the cable s name ready for service rfs date length owners website.
It took the team nearly 4.
Telegeography s free interactive submarine cable map is based on our authoritative global bandwidth research and depicts active and planned submarine cable systems and their landing stations.
If a conduit with fiber optic cables from several providers is severed clients may or.
Data only flows in one direction on either cable making them a good fit for high traffic connections like backbone ports fiber switches and servers.
Duplex cables include two separate fiber optic cables connected by the outer coating with two entry exits on either end.
Image courtesy of university of wisconsin and acm sigcomm.
Map of us long haul fiber optic infrastructure.
The map and data will always remain free and i m confident the new custodians will do the project justice.