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Easy, so we can spy on Russian traffic.

NB: I one thing I notice is how few undersea links Russia has. There's a run to Japan, one to Finland, and a few through the Caucuses. Otherwise, Russian overseas network traffic is almost wholly dependent on third-party links.

Also impressed by India's connections. And of course, the NYC-London linkages.

Russia has lots of countries bordering it, so I'm guessing plenty go through other countries and then run along the rail networks.

I was in a city which was a couple of hundred k's from the next town or rail connection and they had pretty good broadband from what I could tell.

Feel sorry for us Kiwi's, only one cable (the southern cross) active at the moment.

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