“This new edition, Submarine Cable Map 2023, depicts 529 cable systems and 1,444 landings that are currently active or under construction. North America is seeing increasing diversity in submarine cable landing locations. New cables are coming into places like Virginia Beach and Myrtle Beach on the U.S. East Coast. On the West Coast, the first trans-Pacific cable landings are planned for Canada and Mexico. Even in south Florida, which has long been a prime location for cables to Latin America, several new cables are planned in a new location in Naples on the west coast of Florida. Outside of the recently-activated EllaLink cable, South America’s submarine cable connectivity remains heavily-focused on the United States. This trend will continue with the planned activation of cables such as Firmina, Carnival Submarine Network-1, and AMX-3/Tikal…As content providers’ appetite for bandwidth has ballooned, some of these networks have transitioned from just being customers of wholesale capacity to owning transport network infrastructure. This trend began when Google became an investor in the Unity cable consortium, which entered service in 2010. Since then Meta, Microsoft, and, most recently, Amazon have also invested in new submarine cable systems either directly or as major pre-sale purchasers…Used International Bandwidth by Source.Having accounted for less than 10% of total usage prior to 2012, content providers’ share of total capacity surged to 71% in 2022…”