Ironies of life, most people receive internet through air, through wifi, mobile connection or satellites, but in reality the internet is at the bottom of the sea: The network of Submarine cableswhich suppose its weakest link.
Several broken cables or with failures in the Red Seathey have caused cuts and slowdown this weekend in India, Pakistan and Arab Emirates. He has also affected Microsoft’s Azure cloud.
The causes of this Mysterious rupture of submarine cablesbecause it has not been only one, but several, and in different places. Chance, or sabotage?
The mystery of the Red Sea Broken Cables
With as many conflicts as there is today in the world, with global wars such as those of Ukraine and Gaza, and local confrontations in the Middle East, it is difficult to know who could have broken those cables, or if it is an accident. We will have to wait for the investigations, or for someone to claim a possible attack.
A few months ago, the Hutis rebels of the Red Sea attacked four submarine cables, which transmit 17% of the Internet.
As reported NetBlocks In mastodon, last morning Internet speed in the India fell 59%while in Pakistan only a loss of 10%was appreciated.
These slowdown have been due to SMW4 and IMEWE submarine cable failures at Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia.
They have not been the only ones. The Ethylasat and Du cables have suffered problems in Arab Emiratescausing access problems and slowdown in the area.
Reuters has also confirmed that Microsoft’s Azure cloud has had access problems for all its medium East customers, due to «cuts in fiber optic cables.»
Submarine cables, the weak internet point
The truth is that it is difficult to damage an intentionally underwater cable, since they are hundreds, even thousands of meters deep. Sometimes it has happened with drag networks or the anchor of a ship.
In the sabotage of the submarine cables that take the Internet to Sweden and Finland, after the invasion of Ukraine, a Chinese freighter who had been dragging the anchor on the cables was arrested. The freighter had been in Russia days before.
Several damaged submarine cables have caused connection problems in India, Pakistan and the Middle East. It should not be forgotten: Internet resides at the bottom of the sea, although Elon Musk wants to convince us otherwise, with its Starlink satellites. That, by the way, they also fell a few hours ago …
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