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Diving Deep into Submarine Cables: The Undersea Lifelines of Internet Connectivity

Kentik

Fiber optics The submarine cables that move internet traffic around the world are made from silica glass fiber optic strands that most network engineers are likely familiar with. The CLS is where the cable connects to land-based power and various networking provider infrastructure. 654 subset of fiber is used for undersea applications.

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Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review

CloudFaire

Cloudflares network currently spans more than 330 cities in over 120 countries/regions, serving an average of over 63 million HTTP(S) requests per second for millions of Internet properties, in addition to handling over 42 million DNS requests per second on average. As it was in 2023, this address block was 66.249.64.0/20