No, Facebook is building a cable from the East Coast to South Africa and then from South Africa to India and forward to Australia. The final leg is to the US. What Tagare did is take the W shaped network and add branching units. Those branching units have not been confirmed by my contacts. The general shape of the network has been confirmed.

Sorry, yes, was referring specifically to the Sunil Tagare version.

I'm confused.

Are you saying the article is false?

Or that the map illustration is false? Although the map illustration doesn't come from your post.

How did you even find the LinkedIn post? Are they the same author? Is TFA based on the LinkedIn post? How do you know?

And it seems like the TFA doesn't even have an author, nor can I find an author for their whole blog...

Maybe you can clarify all of this, since you seem to have some context here?

The map is current cables, for reference :) https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

AFAICT this post isn't "false" as much as "speculation". Given the news that a cable will be spanning the Atlantic ocean with an end goal of South Asia, South Carolina -> Africa doesn't seem insane. Though it looks like there's no cables there right now...

I was coming in here to complain about "encompass" vs "encircle", but now I'm fascinated by this map. Cool webdev, too!

EDIT: My biggest takeaway is that we should conquer/buy/steal French Polynesia. Also, huge shoutout to the Leif Erikson cable, connecting Oslo with the absolute middle of nowhere[1] in Canada. Oil rig thing, maybe...?

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/Z5CEWt16NzHP2QH3A

The great circle route from Norway to the US passes through Canada. I wouldn’t put too much stock in that.

https://www.greatcirclemap.com/?routes=OSL-JFK

Not speculation in terms of the general path of the cable. What is speculation is the number of branching units.

From the page header, it sounds like the author is Roderick Beck:

“Roderick Beck worked as a sales contractor for Hibernia Atlantic and helps buyers procure capacity and providers make sales.”

Oh thanks, I totally missed that, kind of hidden at the end of the paragraph. Kinda weird place to put the author but at least it's there!

Maybe he's confusing it with the other post? https://subseacables.blogspot.com/2024/10/facebooks-semi-sec...

The article is accurate. I am the author. My sources are/were involved in designing the cable.

As noted the cable connects the US East Coast to South Africa and then heads to India and continues on to Australia before the home stretch to the States. We even know the number of fibre pairs, 16. It is a spatial division multiplexing system.

What about the Nigeria-Chad-Sudan route? Too expensive?

How long till we get Niger and Algeria connected?

The article is just rumors and speculation.