Wet Plant

Almost everything you do online leaves your country through a cable lying on the seafloor. Wet Plant is a map of those cables. 606 cables in service and 97 more still planned, drawn on a globe you can spin, with their real routes, the countries they land in, who owns them, how long they are and when they entered service. 1,922 landing points across 186 countries. 1.55 million kilometres of cable. WHAT "WET PLANT" MEANS It is the industry's own term for everything in a submarine cable system that sits underwater, from the beach manhole at one end to the beach manhole at the other. The part on land is the dry plant. The name is insider jargon, which is exactly why it is on the front of the app. A LIVE SIGNAL, HONESTLY LABELLED Georgia Tech's IODA project measures country-level internet reachability. Wet Plant joins that signal to the countries each cable lands in, so you can see where the…