Technologies for global communications

Davis, John H.; Dinn, N.; Falconer, W.E.

doi:10.1109/35.161387

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“…From 1965From until 1988, satellites provided almost ten times the capacity of submarine telephone cables for almost one-tenth the price (Whalen n.d.). TAT-8, the first fiber-optic cable, laid in 1988, revived the viability of submarine cables, which had been "declared dead twice already-first with the introduction of the radio, second with the growing application of satellites in the 1970s" (Hottes 1993, 102;J. H. Davis, Dinn, and Falconer 1992).…”

Section: Why Not Satellites?mentioning

confidence: 98%

A Wired World: The Evolving Geography of Submarine Cables and the Shift to Asia

Malecki

2009

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Submarine cables for telecommunications were an early catalyst of globalization and of transnational corporate production networks and they continue to facilitate global economic activity. This article describes increasing demand from Internet and mobile phones as well as new uses for cables, such as oil exploration and high-energy physics. We trace the history of submarine cables and their geography from their early days to the Internet era, and analyze a global data set of cables at four intervals since 1979. Although the traditional triad locations (Western Europe, North America, and East Asia) are among the best connected, new networks in new places-notably Asia-are poised to become key network nodes in the twenty-first century. Based on cable capacity, the future submarine cable network looks very different from the old, suggesting new economic geographies and new world cities for a new world economy.

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Section: Why Not Satellites?mentioning

confidence: 98%