undersea fiber

Tags: networks

-submarine cable map

• balancing act
  • budget
  • physical constraints
    • ocean beds are often weird
  • usage growth estimates
    • up to next decade
  • repeater placement
    • extremely expensive
  • sharks
    • https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/sharks-are-eating-the-internet-in-vietnam-9962747.html

iraq internet fiber

• https://pinboard.in/cached/7fdc6a769248/
• fiber backhaul is owned by Baghdad and KRG politicans
• very little room for new companies
• most backhauls are via the sea to EU and US servers
• shortest path to europe is from Iraq-Turkey pipe, but owned by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Bridge_International

• rolling fiber is very hard politically
• wireless very expensive
• point microwave towers to turkey were suggested, which then lead to fiber

iraqi internet history

• https://freelancersconflictblog.wordpress.com/2020/09/16/disconnected-the-iraqi-wifi-war/
  • https://www.sotaliraq.com/2020/07/26/%D9%82%D8%B7%D8%B9-%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%84-%D8%B6%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B7-%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D9%89-%D8%A8%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84-%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A8-%D8%A8/

On private fiber

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25025508 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25020431state machines