The Beiruter
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internet infrastructure - Geopolitics - Digital infrastructure - internet resilience - submarine cablesThe internet’s most important infrastructure is underwater
More than 99% of international data traffic travels through submarine cables, but their concentration along narrow maritime routes, dependence on a small repair fleet and growing control by technology giants are turning the infrastructure beneath the internet into an issue of economic security and geopolitical power.By The Beiruter -
internet infrastructure - Digital economy - IPv4 - IPv6 - IP addressesThe strange market keeping the old internet alive
The internet exhausted its supply of new IPv4 addresses 15 years ago, but a global market for existing addresses shows how scarcity, compatibility and sunk investments can keep an aging technology valuable long after its successor arrives.By The Beiruter
