International Submarine Cables and Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: The Cloud Beneath the Sea

by Douglas R Burnett

If one uses Facebook, Facetime, Skype, Netflix, or any application of the internet internationally, a submarine cable is involved. Fibre optic cables bind the world together and computer server farms, maintained by major telecom and content companies, allow vast amounts of data to be stored and retrieved from the cloud. Not often appreciated is the fact that these server locations worldwide are connected by submarine fibre optic cables. In this sense,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004351590
• ISBN13: 9789004351592
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"