 | This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. (May 2024) |
 Logo from 2003 | |
| Industry | Telecommunication |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1999 |
| Owner | Global Cloud Xchange |
Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) is a 28,000-kilometre-long (17,398 mi; 15,119 nmi) fibre optic mostly-submarine communications cable that connects the United Kingdom, Japan, India, and many places in between. The cable is operated by Global Cloud Xchange, a subsidiary of RCOM.[1] The system runs from the eastern coast of North America to Japan.[2] Its Europe–Asia segment was the fourth longest cable in the world in 2008.[3]
The Europe–Asia segment was laid by Cable & Wireless Marine in the mid-1990s, and was the subject of an article in Wired magazine in December 1996 by Neal Stephenson.[2]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b Neal Stephenson (December 1996). "Mother Earth Mother Board". Wired. Vol. 4, no. 12. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ^ "The internet's undersea world". The Guardian. 1 February 2008. Retrieved 16 October 2017.