Paul Brodsky: The Hidden Cables That Run the World
About this episode
Paul Brodsky discusses the physical infrastructure of the internet, focusing on undersea cables and their significance.
The Debrief is joined by Paul Brodsky, a senior analyst at TeleGeography, to pull back the curtain on the physical guts of the internet. Paul explains how the whole system actually works, what people really mean when they talk about “the cloud,” and what happens in those split seconds when you send a simple message. The team gets into how much of the world’s internet traffic runs through undersea cables, what those cables actually look like - especially m just how startlingly thin they are for something the entire planet depends on. Then comes the big one: what happens when it all goes down? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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