An illustrated field guideAirtel fibre · India → Mountain View

You tapped play.Here is everywhere that tap went.

One YouTube request, followed through the air in your flat, the glass under your street, two address translations, an exchange in Mumbai and a cable on the seabed. Every box it touches is drawn and explained.

of radio in your flat
10 m
of glass to the exchange
4 km
address translations
2
boxes on the way
18
round trip, best to worst
5–250 ms

01 — The route

Seven stops before it even leaves Airtel.

Each one is a real box with a real job. Open any of them for the full drawing.

    02 — Three endings

    Where it ends decides how fast it feels.

    Same tap, same plan, same fibre. A trending video comes from a rack in Mumbai; an obscure one may cross an ocean. Drawn to scale: each packet takes as long as the real round trip, slowed down 40 times.

    03 — Keep reading

    Drawn as SVG at runtime: no images, no framework, no build step. Source on GitHub →