I can imagine how such an idea could occur to someone completely non-technical, but presumably authors of the site are somewhat knowledgeable about the Internet...
Opens the link to the article. Sees map of the U.S. only. Finds no links in the article linking to a world map either...
World Series of Internet.
The article carefully avoids providing a link to the actual site, but it is here:
"To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 11.1.0 or greater is installed."
I found this to be much better
Last year I helped develop The New Cloud Atlas https://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/the-new-cloud-at... which is essentially a custom map rendering of Internet and Telecoms infrastructure from OpenStreetMap. If you want to add more information to a map of the Internet, add it to OSM.
(edits: added link to blog post explaining it)
A lot of fiber was laid along railroad right of ways. SD has both rails and freeways.
All those pipes running through Mississippi, no real way to make use of them.
