Lets just quickly blame someone and then make the investigation inconclusive.
It's US. Or Russia. Or Iran. Or China. I blame our great leaders who can't figure out that peace is better than war.
Some are more equal than others.
Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed
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#22Seacom has confirmed to some press outlets service issues (though they have not said anything about a cause):
> Telecoms provider SEACOM suffered an outage on its subsea cable system over the weekend.
> The disruption is affecting the segment of the cable that runs from Mombasa (Kenya) to Zafarana (Egypt), SEACOM said in a statement.
* https://itweb.africa/content/WnxpE74YRQjMV8XL
> Seacom, one of Africa's leading undersea communications systems and fiber network operators, has suffered a disruption to its connectivity services as a result of breakage on a segment of its cable lining in the Red Sea.
> Confirming the incident, the company says other cables around the area have been damaged as well but has not been able to pinpoint the cause. Seacom's East African cable system, which runs from Mombasa in Kenya to Zafarana in Egypt, went down.
* https://www.benjamindada.com/seacom-cable-damage-red-sea/
* https://techcentral.co.za/seacom-is-down-in-the-red-sea/2402...
This is one of four that are apparently damaged:
> The first reports of damage to submarine cables off the coast of Yemen began emerged on Monday morning, with Israeli news outlet Globes claiming that four cables (EIG, AAE-1, Seacom and TGN-EA) had experienced damage. Seacom has reportedly confirmed damage to a cable it operates on a stretch between Kenya and Egypt.
* https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/27/red_sea_cables_houthi...
A map of their network at:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SEACOM_Global_Network.png
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEACOM_(African_cable_system)#...
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#23Wonder if the Spaceship will allow Musk to send up a serious satellite-based backhaul option. Sounds like there'll be some money to be made there, perhaps sooner than anticipated...
You mean SpaceX? AFAIK Musk is nothing more but a shareholder at this point. Maybe you mean Gwynne Shotwell
You are wrong. Musk is CEO, Chair and CTO according to Wikipedia.
Re: Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed
#24Wonder if the Spaceship will allow Musk to send up a serious satellite-based backhaul option. Sounds like there'll be some money to be made there, perhaps sooner than anticipated...
Replacing entire bundles of fiber connectivity that is most likely in the 100 Terabit range per cable with space based solutions is not economical.
Laws of physics still apply even to space based connectivity technologies.
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#25I am in South Asia and some Europe bound traffic goes though US and Japan now.
wow
Re: Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed
#26Wonder if the Spaceship will allow Musk to send up a serious satellite-based backhaul option. Sounds like there'll be some money to be made there, perhaps sooner than anticipated...
You mean https://www.starlink.com/ ?
Re: Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed
#27Wonder if the Spaceship will allow Musk to send up a serious satellite-based backhaul option. Sounds like there'll be some money to be made there, perhaps sooner than anticipated...
Replacing entire bundles of fiber connectivity that is most likely in the 100 Terabit range per cable with space based solutions is not economical. Laws of physics still apply even to space based connectivity technologies.
Yeah I mean the whole point of my post is that maybe with laser inter-satellite links and a super heavy lift capability it might become economical at least for some use cases. E.g. the Pentagon might be quite interested.
Re: Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed
#28Lets just quickly blame someone and then make the investigation inconclusive.
The Houthis themselves threatened to cut cables.
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#30How can they even technically achieve that? You need to locate the exact location and drop some charges at presumably fairy deep depths Are these cables accessible by divers?