The bandwidth bottleneck that is throttling the Internet.
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In 2016, much of the world's Internet traffic was transmitted via undersea fiber-optic cables; the 6,600 km-long MAREA Facebook/Microsoft-owned cable was estimated to carry 160 Tb/sec of data across the Atlantic Ocean.
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- Authors
- Hecht, J.
- Corresponding author
- Hecht, Jeff
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2016-08-10
- Volume
- 536
- Issue
- 7615
- Pages
- 139-142
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2509554649
- Cited by
- 103
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 1
- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Network Traffic and Congestion Control
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Media Technology › ICT Impact and Policies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Advanced Optical Network Technologies
- Keywords
- internet bandwidth, network capacity, network congestion, information revolution
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