On: Submarine cable map

[lultimouomo]

It's interesting how Russia only has two submarine cable connections, of which only one is international (with Japan).

Is it really so, or is data missing from the map? Anyone know the reason why?

[masklinn → lultimouomo]

Most of their connections are probably overland.

You also seem to be way off on the number of connections, I count at least 4:

* RJCN and HSCS to Japan (one to the mainland across the sea of japan, the other between Sakhalin and Hokkaido)

* BCS North to Finland

* a Georgia-Russia link (lands south of South Ossetia, outside the occupied territories)

* Kerch to Ukraine, though that's in occupied Crimea so…

[walrus01 → masklinn]

Overland links to Europe are most of it. If you look at the number of major Russian ISPs that are members of the DE-CIX in Frankfurt, that's a good indicator of traffic flows.

edit: for example, here's the v4/v6 peering locations for a major russian telecom: https://www.peeringdb.com/net/1265

[yellowapple → lultimouomo]

The lack of land connections on the map threw me for a loop, too; it makes it look like there are no direct connections between North America and Iceland (or Greenland, for that matter) due to the apparent gaps where there are (hopefully) overland cables.