Why do I think that big companies like Meta will pay protection to, let's say, "nation-states that like to cut cable"? Traffic from Meta is not important to nations and economies, so these cables don't rate like the others that have been cut recently. But they are financially hugely valuable to Meta, and a couple billion a year is peanuts.
inemesitaffia•2h ago
This is the age of CDN's and most traffic is hyper local.
Only realtime data (telemetry, love video/calls) can't deal with higher latency
quantified•4h ago
inemesitaffia•2h ago
Only realtime data (telemetry, love video/calls) can't deal with higher latency