World Maps of Current Telecommunications (I)
In the previous article - and regarding the special generator sets that we are exporting to New Zealand for telecommunications - we showed the TeleGeography map, global and interactive, of submarine fiber optic cables that make possible our access to data that is hosted in any part of the world. Today we delve into the subject more in depth, and step by step. *
How is the structure of the Internet physically?
Sometimes when we talk about the Internet, we refer to it as something ethereal; so virtual that it seems to have no "existence". However, the Internet has its "corporeity", a physical appearance. The Peer 1 hosting company has developed an application that allows 3D visualization of the network, seeing how all its autonomous systems are related to each other and how these components interact to connect the world. The tool is attractive in itself, but it also has an educational purpose: to be able to appreciate how the Internet has evolved from 1994 to today, showing what effects it has had, for example, the appearance on the scene of Facebook and Google. We have tested the application on mobile and it is surprising: one can locate their current situation on the map, find where the best-known companies and their domains are, generate the route tracing to nodes, get a visualization / projection of the Internet configuration in 2020 (thanks to the algorithms that the application uses based on current data), learn about the key events that have marked the Internet, etc. The application is free and you can download it from the App Store or from Google play. A magnificent job to better understand how the networks that make up the great network work.
That's how active we are on the Internet
Before continuing, here is a video that shows the continuous activity of our IPs very well. The dynamic image shows the world map as if it were dotted with millions of flares. A show.
Visualization with Voronoi diagrams of the traffic to the most popular websites
This application allows us to see in a dynamic plane how the traffic evolves, month by month, towards the most traveled websites and how it is expanded or reduced in relation to that of the others. The web pages are located by sector and each web page (Amazon, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, eBay, etc.) appears on the map as a region, with a distinguishing color. The diagrams change their shape depending on the monthly percentages.
The map of the Internet, what is special about it?
Like any other map, it is a schematic showing the relative position of objects. The difference with respect to real maps, like the one of the Earth, or to virtual maps, like the one of Mordor, is that the objects that it shows are not aligned on a surface. This Internet Map, mathematically, is a two-dimensional representation of links between websites. Each website is represented by a circle, and its size is determined by the traffic it receives. The connections that users make, from one page to another, form links, which determine the link and the distance between the circles.
The Akamai platform, which provides between 15 and 30% of the world's web traffic, creates maps with the data it collects that help us understand what is happening on the Internet and what our behavior is; information that until recently only their customers had access and that they have now made public: the number of attacks / viruses on the webs, the speed of data moving between the main cities, etc.
In the image above, taken from the Akamai website, we see the attack data for this month of June.
The interesting maps Akamai generates with the stored data
The interesting maps Akamai generates with the stored data
The Akamai platform, which provides between 15 and 30% of the world's web traffic, creates maps with the data it collects that help us understand what is happening on the Internet and what our behavior is; information that until recently only their customers had access and that they have now made public: the number of attacks / viruses on the webs, the speed of data moving between the main cities, etc.
In the image above, taken from the Akamai website, we see the attack data for this month of June.
This other view from above shows us the most attacked regions, the cities with the slowest web connections (latency) and the geographical areas with the highest traffic density.
In the image below, a map view of the use of the internet by industries.
Oxford University is "mapping" the Internet
On the Information Geographies website of the Oxford Internet Institute they are “mapping” the network: we find from an abstraction (image below) of the global submarine network of fiber optic cables as if it were a metro map of a city, to the Map Freebase Geographic Knowledge (the structured database for knowledge management, licensed under Creative Commons, purchased by Google in 2010). The website is also worth a visit.
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