Animated Maps: Submarine Cables

Deep on the ocean floor you will find communication cables made to carry signals from one land to another. The first undersea communications cables, laid in the 1850s, carried telegraphy. Now these cables carry our phone and Internet traffic. Yet, they remain relatively hidden in the depths of the ocean.
This animated map was made using Esri's ArcGIS Pro, Cinema 4D, Redshift, and Adobe After Effects. Please visit ow.ly/fm2950xgu0B for more information about ArcGIS Pro.
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Data source: www.submarinecablemap.com
Music: Leaving Earth by Stanley Gurvich
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[@heliosign]

The first cables in this animation are from the US to offshore accounts in the Caribbean. -Priorities.

[@SweetTeaConnoisseur]

Good catch.

[@Battleneter]

This map is not "fully" Accurate, the Southern Cross Cable that was the largest capacity into NZ and Australia starting in 2000 for the better part of 10 years is missing, with smaller Australian cables being shown around that period.

[@abealpha4022]

Wonderful peace of art this video. Thank you so much for that Hard work :)

[@melodydespoir]

Superbe vidéo.

[@MrJoruge]

En Mayo de 1990, entraron en funcionamiento los cables Florico y TCS-1, que partian de West Palm Beach y amarraron en Puerto Rico, Republica Dominicana, Barranquilla Colombia y Kingston Jamaica. AT&T era el operador Dominante, seguido de Telecom Colombia. Seria Chevere que revisaran la animacion.

[@dmitrii7661]

Leo Gura brought me here!

[@jon8367]

🙏

[@fortresscity1756]

Fortaleza - Brazil, second largest cenexion point in the world. From 2021 it will be the largest in the world with 18 submarine cables.

[@geoffreylee5199]

What about of the early cables? Or are these the optical cables, the copper ones don’t count?

[@mikapouramo9975]

How about the old copper cables for telephone comm pre internet?

[@Grnbaracuda]

So after 2023 there is no cable project?

[@mamashopping5992]

@Esri PLEASE I WANT HOW THESE MAP ANIMATION ARE PRODUCED WHAT ABOUT OF THE PROGRAMS USE FOR MAKE PRESENTATION SAME LIKE THAT

[@roselereau6981]

Any way to do this with just ArcGis Online?

[@esrimaps]

Thanks for the question, Catherine! In the coming weeks we'll be releasing a short tutorial explaining how these map animations are made. Make sure to subscribe to the channel so you'll be notified.

[@roselereau6981]

@@esrimaps Please post it soon! I need it for a project, haha! Can't wait.

[@akcin]

See live.infrapedia.com

[@imran_aziz_tunio]

Very true

[@78loredo]

Do everything possible to not be affected by META fiber optic lines. Reroute.

[@blahblah4874]

I wonder why the oceans are warming up hmmm

[@jon8367]

Did the first cable was from FL to Puerto Rico? Puerto Rico always the Guinea Pig of USA. 😢

[@kelyanburatti4186]

GOOD LUCK

[@jorgesantos6023]

You are a moron! How is this in anyway harmful? If anything Puerto Rico was part of technological breakthrough, people these days are really stupid.

[@jorgesantos6023]

Though it seems there were other cables long before these ones