How South Africa reaches the internet

Every page you load from here crosses one of six submarine cables. Tap a cable, or a chip below, for its story. The routes shown are schematic; the seafloor paths are real but far messier.

Six cables, two coasts tap anything

South Africa hangs off the bottom of the continent with landings on both seaboards. That geography is the whole resilience story: when one coast has a bad day, the other carries the country.