Mapping the Core of the Internet 🌐

Mapping the core internet.
At some point once you get across the wireless connections, past the last miles and the second-to-last miles, you get into the core internet. The internet’s core consists of extremely high-speed high-bandwidth fiber optic cables that crisscross the country and slip unnoticed beneath the oceans. A lot of this internet infrastructure is hidden, and for good reason—​it’s mission-critical and so somewhat sensitive. But you can still see a bit of it if you know where to look.

Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).

Part of the https://www.internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.