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How the internet spans the globe

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The modern Internet is made possible by hundreds of thousands of miles of undersea cables.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 63, Issue 1
        January 2020
        90 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/3377354
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