Sources
Where our information comes from and how much weight it carries.
Datasets
- Cable routes, landing points, owners, RFS
- TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, retrieved 26 Sep 2026.
- Land, borders, country labels
- Natural Earth 1:50m, public domain.
- Outage annotations and latency
- Cloudflare Radar (CC BY-NC 4.0), when connected.
- Route latency
- RIPE Atlas public ping measurements between anchors and probes near each city.
Sources we cite and monitor
| Publisher | Type | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| ABC News | news | Reliable |
| Aus Internet | isp status | Reliable |
| Converge Digest | news | Reliable |
| DCD | news | Reliable |
| Light Reading | news | Reliable |
| Telecompaper | news | Reliable |
| Tom's Hardware | news | Reliable |
| Vocus | operator news | Reliable |
| iTnews | news | Reliable |
| AUNS | news | Unverified |
Only a cable’s owner, operator or consortium, or a party with direct knowledge of the system, can confirm a fault. ISPs, maritime authorities and established trade press can support details such as location, repair ships and impact. A source’s weight can differ from cable to cable. Measurement platforms such as Cloudflare Radar and RIPE Atlas show that traffic was disrupted, never which cable failed, so they are cited for impact only.