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Development Update #1

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Infrapedia’s objective is to visualize the physical infrastructure of the Internet (www.infrapedia.com/app).

In May, 2020 we announced our beta test for Infrapedia Version 2, a new community platform. Since then we have been continuously working on updating the platform, fixing bugs, adding new features as well as updating the information in our database.

Completed Updates
We are happy to announce that major parts of our system are now generally available. This includes:

  • Improved speed
  • Legend
  • Accessible to the public
  • Print Map (WYSIWYG)
  • Advanced filters:
    • Time machine
    • active or future subsea cable systems
  • SEO
  • Subsea Cables:
    • View subsea cable system on the map
    • View details about a subsea cable, including status, Design Capacity, Lit capacity, Points of Presence (POP), Cable Landing Stations (CLS), owners and known users.
    • Easier access to related objects, including CLS, POPs and owner information.
    • Add a new subsea cable through the dashboard.
    • Update existing subsea cable data through the dashboard.
      Note: Owner verification and administrator access required.
  • Terrestrial Networks:
    • View terrestrial networks on the map
    • View details about a terrestrial network, including status, On-net facilities, connected Cable Landing Stations (CLS) and owners.
    • Easier access to related objects, including CLS, POPs and owner information.
    • Add a new terrestrial network through the dashboard.
    • Update existing terrestrial network data through the dashboard.
      Note: Owner verification and administrator access required.

Market Place
Due to COVID-19 humanity is going through a difficult time. The telecom market is facing its own challenges as well. While we normally meet each other at one of the various conferences, we now meet online.

In order to support the community, Infrapedia has developed an online “Market Place”. Based on our Buy Now! Sales funnel for our Partners all incoming requests can be seen through our public Market Place! 

This unique feature gives the community a transparent overview of any buy orders coming in. Better yet, we also created an option for any community member to submit an offer. For more information about our Buy Now! feature and partnership opportunities, click here.

Data Set validation
Infrapedia is currently updating its database with subsea cable systems. We will continue updating the database but also call out to the community for help. If you have any information about a subsea cable, if there is an outage somewhere in a network or you want to add a new cable system or terrestrial network please contact us. Or, verify ownership of a subsea cable or terrestrial network and get direct access to your data and help keep the map up to date.

So far, we have updated and added multiple systems, including:

The future
We are not done yet. There are still a lot of features that we want to build, including detailed data center facility information and IXPs. Help support the development by becoming a partner or project sponsor and keep the map free for the world to use…

Stay safe and be well!
Infrapedia Development Team
Hubert Souisa, Jose Martinez, Manuel Blanco