#subsea-cables
4 episodes
#797: The Hidden Hierarchy: Who Really Owns the Cloud?
Explore the hidden hierarchy of the cloud, from massive hyperscalers to the boutique providers and resellers powering our digital world.
#470: The Billion-Dollar Millisecond: High-Frequency Trading
Discover how HFT firms use space lasers and hollow-core fiber to shave microseconds off trades in a high-stakes, winner-take-all race to zero.
#334: Subsea Secrets: How AI Taps the World's Fiber Optics
Herman and Corn reveal how governments ingest the internet through subsea cables and use Agentic AI to filter the global digital firehose.
#138: The Glass Threads: Decoding the Internet's Anatomy
From living room routers to deep-sea cables, Herman and Corn explore the massive, hidden engineering that keeps our digital world connected.