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Two: Inside the Walls

Where the Internet Lives

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Submarine Cables - The Queen of Cables

Jane stowell is the person who oversees the construction of cables across oceans. She thinks about them as part of a circulatory system, and i would call that the equivalent of our data centres in the global network. In the nineties, she pioneered an approach that sped up the process from six years to less than two years. I came to a come pretty much the queen of submarine. Did some one coin that nickname for you? Ah, yes, actually, vincer, the founder of the internet.

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